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...heavily bearded spacemen munched watermelon and bantered with a mob of scientists, doctors and Soviet newsmen. Feeling the heat in the crowded resthouse, Popovich said, "I must admit that it was more comfortable in space." Added Nikolayev with a grin: "Yes, fewer people and less noise." Khrushchev telephoned congratulations from his Black Sea vacation spot at Yalta, told Popovich that he had seen a picture of his bushily mustached father in Pravda. "Your father curls his mustaches like Taras Bulba," said Nikita. "What a Cossack! He seems to be saying, 'Give me a horse and saber...
...result of this abdication was the destruction of the second republic. The military coup of May 16, 1960 did not mark the end of Korean democracy, the real end of Korean democratic government was the day that the mob had been allowed to invade the national assembly and had forced it to enact retroactive laws...
...Cabinet. A coalition government headed by two such diverse men as Haya, the fiery old revolutionary, and Odria, the conservative old strongman, would be a strange solution indeed. But it seemed to give more promise of stability for Peru than did Belaúnde's barricaded mob in Arequipa, drinking pisco and making bonfires at night to keep warm. One city official in Arequipa thought that Belaunde's mob "looks more like a public nuisance than a revolution...
...avoid mob scenes and gatecrashing, tickets will not be sold at the door. All dances run from 8:30 to 12 p.m. at Memorial Hall. George Graham's orchestra will provide music...
...diction and easy projection, turns the relatively minor role of the Bishop of Carlisle into a major contribution. Helped by inspired writing to be sure, his long denunciation of Bolingbroke is superb acting. There is something noble and thrilling about an individual in the right willing to oppose the mob in the wrong even though he may be scaling his own doom. Thus has it always been: Antigone, Saint Joan, Sir Thomas More, Dr. Thomas Stockmann, Martin Luther King. Carlisle is of their company. In the play's final scene, Bolingbroke sentences Carlisle to live as a perpetual anchorite...