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...African delegates were incensed and Liberia's Ambassador Henry Ford Cooper demanded that the speech be stricken from the record. It was an unprecedented challenge to the one institution that makes the U.N. General Assembly important-free speech. Only later did the more reflective among the Africans suggest retreat to the less harsh course of a vote of censure. The grounds: Louw's speech had been "offensive, fictitious and erroneous." Precipitately, a ballot was taken and the motion carried by 67 votes to South Africa's 1, with 20 delegates abstaining and 9 (including...
...Quixote, spear in hand, gallops to force reality to rise above itself. This Europe must be born. And she will, when Spaniards will say 'our Chartres,' Englishmen 'our Cracow,' Italians 'our Copenhagen'; when Germans say 'our Bruges,' and step back horror-stricken at the idea of laying murderous hands on it. Then will Europe live, for then it will be that the spirit that leads history will have uttered the creative words: 'Fiat Europa...
...Medical School research team has developed a pump which restores blood to the stricken area of the heart after an otherwise fatal attack...
...marry a rich man (Claude Akins), but when the girl laughs him off as a "fat old fool,'' the mother is only too ready to offer him consolation. In the end, two of the daughter's boy friends fight, and one of them is killed. Stricken with guilt, the wench cries out: "Oh Papa! It's all my fault!'' It isn't, though. Hovelist Erskine Caldwell's breast-selling book, on which the film is based, negotiates such a ruttish stretch of his notorious Tobacco Road that anybody who tries to follow...
...three were shot down by Pathet Lao gunfire while on a mission to the Meo country. Wasting no time, Nagle and his helicopter crew grabbed a survival kit and headed for the cover of the jungle. Not long ago, another helicopter crew, forced down by gunfire, stuck by their stricken craft to wait for rescue. The men have not been heard from since, and are reported prisoners of the Pathet...