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...onio de Oliveira Salazar's nominee, Admiral Ameérico Tomaés. But never before in Salazar's 26 years' rule had an opposition candidate - in the 30-day "freedom" period that Salazar theoretically grants before an election-been able to show how much unrest lies below the surface. Opposition Candidate Humberto Delgado, an air force general who promised to fire Salazar if elected, ran into familiar difficulties: 1) he was not allowed to speak in the city of Braga because he might "interfere" with an annual religious pilgrimage; 2) his Lisbon headquarters had the letter...
...hardening Western line reflected suspicions of new unrest behind the Iron Curtain in general and within the Kremlin hierarchy in particular (see FOREIGN NEWS). The hardening line also reflected sober second thought from London to Seoul about what reducing the power of the free world's deterrent might mean...
Adlai Stevenson, addressing a Democratic women's conference, spent a whimsical paragraph on a sure laugh-getter, the sack dress. "The source of the sack is Moscow. It will be Khrushchev's greatest triumph. It spreads discontent, unrest, antagonism and hostility. It isn't even subliminal-its nonlinear." Speaker Stevenson suggested that women use the chemise in a dressed-up version of the gimmick from Aristophanes' Lysistrata, in which Greek women go on a sex strike until husbands give up warring: "Let women say-peace, or the sack...
...could be hard. He lost a leg to frostbite and he grew his beard not because he was an eccentric but because long exposure had left his face too tender for a razor. But, he wrote, "those who have been to the Arctic always long to go back. The unrest never leaves them and they will sacrifice much to once again glimpse...
...defend Pastor Mathiot. Said Charles Westphal, vice president of the French Protestant Federation and a veteran of the wartime French underground: "Mathiot's action is justified by the prevalence of torture in Algeria ... He obeyed the highest moral law there is. His act is symptomatic of the great unrest in French consciences today." Other signs of unrest: the French Reformed Church, as well as the Catholic Church, has repeatedly drawn attention to abuses in Algeria. Speaking not only against excessive use of violence there but against bitter anti-Algerian propaganda at home, the Assembly of Cardinals and Archbishops...