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...controversial man. He is earnest and he is honest. He has enemies. Whenever you attack subversives of any kind, Communists, Fascists, even the Ku Klux Klan, you are going to be the victim of the most extremely vicious criticism that can be made. I know. But sometimes a knock is a boost. When certain elements cease their attacks on me, I'll know I'm slipping...
...free discussion, and so I piped up and said that according to agreements made between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, there wasn't anything wrong with Chiang being on Formosa. I really didn't know what I was talking about, but . . . I wanted to say something to knock them down." The reactionaries set fire to the lecture hall, poured ink into Chinese laundry baskets, refused to carry Red banners in demonstrations, cussed out their guards. When British Communist Newsman Alan Winnington visited the camp, the P.W.s booed him down and he never came back. Once, the reactionaries ganged...
Consumer Resistance. Near Santa Rosa, Calif., outraged when Bartender Carl Curtis told them that beer was 25? a bottle, four bar patrons decided to walk out, tarried long enough to knock down Curtis, take $25 from the cash register...
...pooh. All the talk about Ben Hogan being the world's greatest golfer "makes me a little sick," Mangrum said. He knew "half a dozen" pros who would "do just as well as Hogan if they could afford to pick their spots." He didn't want to "knock" Ben. but "it's a little ridiculous, all this notoriety." Said Hogan: "I don't answer things like that...
Italians, said the Premier, fully expect the promise to be kept. If it is not, he hinted, Italy may refuse to join EDC, and may even withdraw from NATO-a step that would knock the foundations from under U.S. strategy for a united, anti-Communist Western Europe...