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...German people," declared Presiding Judge Johannes Eckert. "What thousands have tried to repair, one man with such words can destroy." But as Ludwig Zind walked out of the courtroom, where the audience had been plainly on his side, women wept at the verdict and men reached out to shake his hand...
Back in 1955, when Soviet Communism wanted to smile, shake hands and play pen pals with the West after Stalin's death, the Kremlin had use for Bulganin's smooth good looks, benign good manners, and easy way with a glass. Bulganin was an Old Bolshevik whose long years of managing Soviet agencies without ever saying a flat yes or no had only enhanced his ability to look, dress and propose toasts like a Belgian burgomaster. "A real gentleman;' cooed a French chorus girl from a visiting troupe he once called on backstage at the Bolshoi...
...vaccine to keep her quiet." He had a vaccine prepared from her saliva, told her it was being given only to prove its uselessness. Yet on weekly injections all one winter, she had no cold. Coincidence, snorted the scientifically cautious doctor. Repeat tests with other pesky patients did not shake Dr. Ritchie until he had run up a score of 60 or 70 over 20 years. Then he began to think there might be something to the vaccines, after...
...wildly cheering Parliament, Noon denounced India as a "brown colonial country of the worst type," chided Britain and the U.S. for bowing to Indian pressure, broadly hinted that if Pakistan became more seriously threatened by India, it would "break all pacts in the world and go and shake hands with the people whom we have made enemies for the sake of others." Noon's outburst gave popular expression to what seems to most Pakistanis the major fact of international life: India's neutralism has been rewarded by the big U.S., while their own loyalty has brought them continued...
...borrower have to feel embarrassed about a loan? It is nothing but schizophrenia that makes installment buying of life [things needed now] immoral and installment buying of death [life insurance] moral. And I'd like to see the lending man get up from his desk and smile and shake hands with the prospective borrower, no matter how poor a credit risk he appeared...