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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...demand for a veto on practically all Western defense plans. Addressing a crowd at Grenoble during a swing through eastern France, De Gaulle said: "France intends that if, by misfortune, atomic bombs were to be dropped on the world, none should be dropped by the free world's side unless she should have accepted it, and that, from her soi , no atomic bomb should be launched unless she herself should have decided it." He was still a man who did not seem to mind a lonely eminence...
...another Orwellian display of converting failures into successes, the Chinese Communists last week found a bright side even to the breakdown of railroad transportation. Peking's Evening News reported that thousands of passengers had written in declaring their delight in the fact that express trains often made unscheduled stops of 15 minutes or more because the delays give them a chance to get out and perform calisthenics. "After the exercises," women of Chekiang province were quoted, "our limbs feel more relaxed and our brain more sober...
Never had a political issue been so passionately disputed. Opposing gangs roamed the city streets, plastering their own placards on lampposts, ripping down the posters of the other side. The English-language papers openly plugged the anti-republican side, just as Afrikaner editors gave the headlines to government workers who were urging the electorate to vote Ja. One excited anti-republic housewife out shopping heaved a custard pie into the face of a jeering Nationalist...
...Congregationalist academy launched in 1853 by a Yale clergyman from Massachusetts. The campus was a fandango dance hall, but Founder Henry Durant in a letter home glowed over the "beauty and salubrity" of the place. He hoped to educate gold miners, and believed in looking on the bright side...
News staffers have come to know better than to tailor their stories to Knowland's political cloth. In the first local election held after he returned from Washington, Oakland Democrats were dumfounded to find that their side got equivalent play with the Republicans. Said Knowland, well aware that the Trib's circulation area is 60% Democratic: "We've got to serve the whole community." In his one try at personal reporting, Knowland filed dispatches of scrupulous objectivity from both 1960 party conventions. Wrote Knowland after the Republicans nominated Nixon: "Both parties have strong and able campaigners...