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...platform he installed the members of an Australian parliamentary delegation. When he rose to speak, he briefly delivered MacArthur's greetings, then referred to the bombing of Hiroshima in words the Japanese have not heard for some time. Said Brasshat Robertson: "This disaster was your own fault. . . The punishment given to Hiroshima was only part of the retribution of the Japanese people as a whole...
...else-' 'What do you mean?' I asked gently. Then he said there's a new order prohibiting indecent bathing suits and that I was a shameless girl. Why that dirty flatfoot wasn't even a Roman. My Mario says it's all the fault of that rowdy Christian Democrat Scelba, and the walloping that's in store for me when mama hears about it will be his fault too, the s.o.b...
...Grace Fernald's clinic school at U.C.L.A. [TIME, July 12] unwittingly puts a finger on the fundamental fault of present-day grade school education. Why was a boy who was unable to read or write promoted year after year until he reached the fifth grade ? And how much further would he have been promoted if he hadn't gone to the clinic school...
Glib Proposal. Was it Ike's fault, after that, if the pressure continued to build up? The week before the convention, such hardboiled political practitioners as Jake Arvey, Frank Hague and Bill O'Dwyer were willing to gamble that Ike actually would accept when the chips were down. Some of their confidence sprang from desperation and wishful thinking, no doubt. Some of it may have come from Ike's unfamiliarity with the language of politics...
...symbolize its political death, the party elected as secretary a man who, through no fault of his own, had not had much of a life. Alberto lacometti joined the Socialists in his student days and the Fascists kicked him out of Italy in 1926, when he was 24. In France he got a job as head gardener at the lush Moulin Bicherel roadhouse. The sight of the idle rich disporting themselves disgusted him and he quit. France kicked him out and he got a job addressing envelopes in Brussels. The Germans chased him for a year, caught him, gave...