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Colonial officials sneered. "Bourguiba's crazy and sick," said one. "There's no telling what he'll do." Added another: "The Neo-Destour is a fascist movement. Today their line is cooperation with us. But soon they'll start getting rid of their enemies. First it will be the Vieux Destour (nationalist extremists), then the Jews, then the French. All this enthusiasm has been a victory for France's policy. But it must stop at internal autonomy...
Because his child was killed [by a teenage hoodlum] gives more reason than ever for Research Chemist William Blankenship to carry on his work to rid the street "jungles" of such criminals and the causes that contribute to their creation. The young victim is a martyr to the cause. For most every good and lasting cause, someone...
Tito and his abettors . . . will not escape the terrible judgment of their people. They will have to account for their sanguinary crimes, for their repulsive betrayal" (Marshal Bulganin). "The time will come when the people of Yugoslavia will avenge themselves and get rid of Tito's clique" (Khrushchev). "History will give Tito the choice of poison, as was Hitler's case, or the rope, as was Mussolini's case" (Literary Gazette...
...also a lonely misanthrope who saw the world and himself with intolerable clarity. After one three-day binge he groaned to a friend: "To be able to tear off my flesh, to get rid of this awful, horrifying skin we have . . ." He once wrote, melodramatically but perhaps not inaccurately: "I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval . . ." In the poems that will remain long after the last alcoholic insult to that skin he loathed, there are many victories...
...decision last week, CAB thought that one answer would be for Hawaiian Airlines to get rid of its expensive new Convairs. But H.A.L. has flatly refused to do so, said the planes will eventually be cheaper to operate. Says H.A.L. President Arthur D. Lewis: "There is no more reason for continuing to fly obsolete equipment in Hawaii than anywhere else in the United States...