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...better wake up and realize that there are more Democrats than Republicans in this country, and that your future depends on giving all sides a fair shake. Right now the odds are that the Republicans will not win in 1956. That would put you in a hell of a position. All we Democrats ask is fair treatment-equal treatment. We can lick the opposition with this. I don't give a damn that my subscription expires this month. I get the Democratic Digest, and that will well take up my time...
However, fruit does not ripen everywhere at the same moment. It is unreasonable to treat, for example, Viet Nam, a land with an old civilization, and a group of mountain tribes from Laos or Africa, still only partly emerged from primitive savageness, in the same way. By wanting to shake off guardianship too quickly-assuming that this guardian is honest and not a tyrant-a population risks falling into anarchy. But to want to hold out in spite of all opposition, faced with a native elite reasonably capable of taking the reins of authority, the colonial power runs the risk...
...could be easily shown that the presidency had become both more powerful and closer to the people than either the 18th or 19th centuries had dreamed it might. From this, it would seem to follow that the sudden illness of a figure as cherished as Dwight Eisenhower would shake the republic to its foundations...
...Shake, Rattle n Roll!" To a few these words mean nothing. But for ten million American teen-agers they are an invitation to the biggest dance craze to sweep the nation since the jitterbug: Rock n Roll. Though its roots are deep in the Rhythm and Blues of the South, Rock n Roll, with its "big beat," is an entirely new kind of music...
...Licks. In London, Sidney Adams was fined ?3 ($8.40) after Mrs. Mary Jane Andrews testified that he had sworn to drive his neighbors mad, kept them up with noisy music night after night, once played a record of Shake, Rattle and Roll for 2½ hours...