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...showdown, Camp comfortably retained his position with 564 votes v. 502 for Diefenbaker's man. Next day, the delegates were even more explicit about how they felt about Diefenbaker. By a 2-to-l margin, they endorsed Camp's proposal for a conference some time before 1968 to reconsider the party's leadership. The timing for the conference was meant to avoid an embarrassing power struggle during Canada's centennial celebrations next year. Diefenbaker was so outraged by the vote that he refused to make his scheduled speech at the conference's closing dinner...
...untitled poem by Merrill Kaitz makes quite explicit use of Stevens, though it's not clear whether as a model or as an object of satire. The poem begins...
...Surgeon General asks that the explicit consent of the subject be given in all human experiments. He perhaps does not realize that this would invalidate a number of psychological tests. If an experimenter asks a subject for permission to deceive his sense of perception, the subject will go into the experiment looking for the trick. This obviously distorts his normal reactions and makes his observations worthless. Explicit consent is essential only for potentially dangerous experiments...
...party, but in fact the Red Guards seemed to have declared war on the party in general. There were more reports of indiscriminate beatings of local party officials, and in one town the party leader was smeared with muck and dragged through the streets. Despite Chou's explicit warning, Red Guards also ransacked the Shanghai home of Madam Sun Yatsen, the widow of the man who founded the Chinese Republic in 1911. The Guards denounced her for living in luxury unbecoming to a citizen of Mao's China. On yet another front, the Guards ordered the disbanding...
...observed, "I like a man who takes his time." Later, the code's prohibition against "lustful embraces" did not stop Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr from wrestling all over a Hawaii beach in From Here to Eternity. And scarcely anybody paid any attention to the taboo against "explicit treatment of adultery...