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After a long round of applause from the standing spectators, Nixon began by commenting on the crowd's enthusiasm. "Talk about staid old Boston," he said, "well, you have the answer to that, and you'll have the answer in "52!" (thunderous applause...
Ruiz Cortínez is a staid standard-bearer for Mexico's "revolutionary" party. He hates publicity, speaks rarely, lives modestly in one of the capital's more conservative neighborhoods. His favorite relaxation is playing dominoes. After thirteen years in the revolutionary army without rising above the rank of major and eleven years in government bureaus without rising above the rank of clerk, he joined young Mike Alemán and rode the escalator right behind him-first to the governorship of his native Veracruz, then to the Ministry of Interior, the job from which Alem...
...brought his publishers, Little, Brown, an English edition of George Orwell's Animal Farm. Schlesinger was much impressed by this satire on Communist Russia-a parable of animal totalitarianism in which all the animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. Sure that the staid old Boston firm would want to publish the book, Schlesinger was shocked when they turned it down. He noted especially the opposition of Head Editor D. Angus Cameron...
Taking over the club's monthly magazine, Revista do Club Militar, the Communists quietly converted a staid review of tactical problems and social functions into a party-line organ. Revista editorials blasted the U.S. and U.N., called the Korean campaign a war of "Wall Street imperialism," described U.N. troops as "butchers," and criticized Brazil's government for cooperating with the West...
Fortunino Matania, 70, thinks every picture should have a woman in it. In his London studio last week he pointed scornfully to the picture on his easel, a group of staid 18th Century English gentlemen in periwigs and ruffles. "Imagine!" said Artist Matania. "They ask me, me of all people, to paint a picture without women. Such sacrilege! Such a crazy world we live...