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...weight to throw him to the floor without necessarily injuring him, karate aims at increasing its user's own strength to kill or injure an adversary by striking him at any of 26 vital points-chiefly with the toughened edge of the hand or the clenched fist. Although used by Japanese troops during World War II, karate is considered too ferocious for the U.S. armed forces. Nor do municipal police forces take regular karate training. "In no court," said one police official, "would karate be called 'reasonable force' in subduing a prisoner...
Like many a well-dressed political boss, New York's Carmine De Sapio wears a velvet glove over his hard fist: his public utterances are usually soothing; he rarely shows irritation or displeasure. But last week De Sapio, sore beset by the so-called reform insurgents, who seek to unseat him as New York Democratic national committeeman and leader of Tammany Hall, struck out at his tormentors. In this year's New York City mayoralty campaign, De Sapio promised, his regular Democrats will "oppose and oust these self-styled leaders who seek to rule or ruin the party...
...Wellington sat down to wait, what he presumed was Eugenie's little sister descended upon him. She stepped on his white buck shoes, untied his bow tie, mussed his hair, poked her fist in his eye, and jumped in his lap. "Get off me, kid, you shed," Wellington hissed...
...True, Not True." When the bill came up for debate on the floor of Parliament just before Christmas, the Socialists knew they could not block it with their minority of 84 votes out of a total 212 in the lower house. They resorted to jeers and interruptions, finally provoked fist fights on the floor with Eyskens' Liberal-Christian coalition Deputies. Then the strikes began, and in town after town pent-up frustration exploded with the fury of a coiled spring. First out were the solid, dependable teachers and low-level provincial employees. Then, unexpectedly, thousands of postal workers, railroad...
...Hidden Fist. Portugal's formula for success in race relations is simple: keep the natives illiterate, keep them working, keep them scared. But it may in the end prove no more lasting than Belgian policy in the Congo. Although higher education technically is open to all, the cost is prohibitive for blacks. In all Angola there are only 200 Africans in high school; Mozambique boasts just 50, and has produced only one college graduate, a young African who went to Lisbon University on the proceeds of a lucky lottery ticket. For indigenas, this paucity of educational opportunity hardly eases...