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...team had not seen Kadar. That privilege was reserved for the two visitors from Moscow, Khrushchev and Malenkov. In Budapest's Parliament House Khrushchev, in effect, told the Hungarians that they could not expect the same measure of independence as the Poles were now enjoying. Whereas stiff-backed Wladyslaw Gomulka had been able to stand off the bullying Russians, in Hungary the Russians were dealing, not with a man, but with a creature of their torture cells...
...varsity will not get any stiff Ivy League competition until it plays Princeton in late February...
...vowing to "clean up the party and restore ethics," and boasted of their health. Kishi pointed out that he was the youngest; Ishibashi crowed that "I can eat and drink anything," and that he sleeps well. Amidst reports of big bribes being offered for votes, Prime Minister Hatoyama hobbled, stiff-legged and leaning on an aide's shoulder, to the microphone, and asked for "a clean election...
...pony. Dignified and smiling, his crew cut and glasses making him look (as one American put it) like an exchange student at the University of Southern California, he received a bouquet of red roses from Nehru's daughter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi. All week long he kept up a stiff schedule of spiritual talks and mass blessings, interspersed occasionally with political conferences (apart from his divine attributes, the Dalai Lama is also chairman of Tibet's Preparatory Committee to Improve Administrative and Social Structure). At all times the Dalai Lama was conspicuously attentive to Red China's Foreign...
...There is a stiff fine," DeGuglielmo said, for those out-of-town students who spend most of their time in Cambridge and do not pay the Cambridge insurance premium, which is the second highest in the state...