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...selections: the Yenching Palace and the Peking). They identify themselves with greetings in Mandarin: to "How are you?" one might answer Ma Ma Hu Hu, which means "horse, horse, tiger, tiger," or "pretty lousy." Though they can rarely come up with the tidy conclusions of their Kremlinological colleagues, they doubtless deserve the white button one of them was wearing last week: its four Chinese characters said simply: "We try harder...
This week's House Democratic caucus would doubtless approach the Powell problem with the utmost diffidence, even though the pressure was on to corral him. Sensing that this was the case, Powell issued a statement condemning efforts to dump him from his committee chairmanship as part of a "conspiracy of enormous dimensions." His critics, he said, "are trying to politically castrate one of America's most powerful Negro politicians." If they persist, Powell hinted, he would blow the whistle on other congressional sinners. And, though many if not most Negro leaders privately hold Powell in contempt, they were...
...ranks, and certainly expulsion is not too severe a measure in light of his treatment of the courts. Still, banishing Powell from the Capitol would probably create more problems than it solved. No Congressman has ever been expelled for contempt of court before, and such a move would doubtless be construed by Powell's Harlem district as a vicious effort to deprive Negroes of their most effective and powerful congressional spokesman. Powell would return home a martyr, and in the new election which followed the vacating of his seat, he would probably be over-whelmingly returned to office...
...Doubtless the droves of football widows in search of Christmas gifts swelled the sales, but a better reason is that the book speaks eloquently to the nonfan as well...
...hosts, Kosygin went on French television with some smiles and pleasing words for the audience. "For the first time in history," he said, "two great powers with different social systems, the Soviet Union and France, have decided to put their relations on a solid foundation." De Gaulle was doubtless pleased at something else Kosygin predictably produced: a blast-though a perfunctory one-at U.S. "intervention" in Viet Nam. But while the two statesmen were in hearty agreement over events in far-off Asia, they reached a standoff on what is the great issue for Europeans. In their talks, Kosygin again...