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Russia's good-neighbor contrast the same week: 1,500 farmers and farmers' wives from the Polish town of Siemiatycze (rhymes with Shame ya witch ya) trekked 100 miles to Warsaw, mobbed the U.S. embassy on nothing more than the strength of a wild rumor that the U.S. would transport anybody who wanted to settle in Alaska. Key reason why the rumor swept on through village after village: Communist officials and newspapers insisted that the rumor...
...performance opened with a thud of tom-toms and the calls of masked, grass-skirted witch doctors exorcising spirits. It closed with an exuberantly costumed rain dance that compares in color and good humor to New Orleans' Mardi Gras. The show: a fast-moving, two-hour demonstration of native dances by Les Ballets Africains, a troupe of skilled amateurs from newly independent Guinea. The 28 dancers have won raves all over Europe, last week dazzled Manhattan audiences and critics...
...asking the Congress legislatively to reverse several important Court decisions in the field of internal security, the ABA has heralded a retreat to the witch-hunting days of the late Senator McCarthy. The reaction to this McCarthy aberration, as expressed in the liberalizing rulings of the Court, did not represent a violent move to an opposite aberration, but a reasoned return to established values of civil and individual liberty...
...specific recommendations, countermanding sound Court decisions, indicate, that the Association--though not without stormy debate--has allowed itself to be bullied by a committee apparently stacked with rightwing, witch-hunting elements. Each of the five legislative proposals, if enacted, would have the effect of reinitiating a segment of the anti Communist panic campaign of the early...
...some critics have argued, legalisms based on semantic misinterpretation. They were, on the contrary, reasonable assertions of basic, but long-neglected, civil rights. It is therefore astounding to find the ABA standing with the American Legion and comparable reactionary elements in proposing a return to the days of the witch-hunt and the Red herring...