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...Duck's Egg. Some Western experts found the white paper's criticisms just too strident to be true. Or, if the paper was authentic, they suspected that it might be a calculated leak by Khrushchev, who is perennially running for office as the West's favorite Communist. Khrushchev, these experts argue, would like nothing better than to extract concessions from the West in the guise of the reasonable world statesman who needs to show results if he is to stand up to big, bad Mao. Deutscher himself is an ex-Communist and avowed Trotskyite who, though...
...Moscow from Geneva, where he spent more time making contacts among European Communists than worrying about Laos, was sufficiently impressed by the paper to be annoyed about it. "You will not find a crack in the Sino-Soviet alliance any more than you will find one in a duck's egg," he told a French reporter. But he could not resist adding: "The heaviest Soviet satellite weighs four tons. China is too heavy to become a satellite.'' A Polish Communist source insisted that the Deutscher paper was "technically false," but conceded in the next breath that...
Even while he made his millions, Clint Sr. was never too busy for his boys. They lived in a lively, colorful and noisy household, populated by Clint Sr.'s business cronies, learned to play poker and to hunt squirrel, duck and quail in the best Texas style. When John was only ten, Clint began teaching him the basic lessons in financial gain: you can buy something, and make a profit on it, without using your own money. He sold John a calf on credit for $25, took his signed note to pay the price plus interest. Young John later...
...those who consider Field's assessment a bit generous. One longtime News staffer (Stuffy wishes he knew who) insisted that his boss was "as profound as a one-pound box of chocolates"; a former city editor has compared working for Walters to "being bitten to death by a duck." Robert M. Hutchins, who went on to become chancellor of the University of Chicago after helping Walters put out a paper for U.S. troops in Italy during World War I, has been even more outspoken. Some years ago Hutchins complained: "What can you expect us to do in education when...
...time is the widespread cynicism of Yugoslav youth toward his own particular brand of Communism."They do not think enough that their duty is to give to the community what they can," says Tito. Most students scorn Tito's voluntary "youth brigades" for road building, and they duck army service as long as possible by taking an average of seven years to complete a five-year university course. Many drift into the gangs of delinquents who make a living scalping sports tickets or stealing parts from parked automobiles. They join the Communist Party...