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Boys Will Be Boys Dept. (Iron Curtain Division): A verbatim report of a football match between Poland and Soviet Russia as reported in the Polish magazine Tygodnik Powszechny: “Whenever a Russian played badly he was booed, whenever a Pole played badly, the Russian was booed; when the referee gave a free kick to the Poles, the Russians were booed; when he gave a free kick to the guests, the referee was booed. The public madness reached its apogee when the Polish goal keeper, hit accidentally. felt faint for a moment: the chorus of boos and screams became infernal and vodka bottles [empty, obviously] rained on the field.” Heaven only knows what would have happened if Poland hadn’t won.

Representative John Bell Williams of Mississippi has offered an amendment to the Foreign Aid Bill that will send shudders down what’s left of the spines of our professional international handerouters and raise whoops of jubilation from that sadly ignored factor in the foreign aid machine, the taxpaying American public. The amendment is this: to deny American aid to any country whose UN mission votes for admission of Communist China.

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Boys Will Be Boys Dept. (Iron Curtain Division): A verbatim report of a football match between Poland and Soviet Russia as reported in the Polish magazine Tygodnik Powszechny: “Whenever a Russian played badly he was booed, whenever a Pole played badly, the Russian was booed; when the referee gave a free kick to the Poles, the Russians were booed; when he gave a free kick to the guests, the referee was booed. The public madness reached its apogee when the Polish goal keeper, hit accidentally. felt faint for a moment: the chorus of boos and screams became infernal and vodka bottles [empty, obviously] rained on the field.” Heaven only knows what would have happened if Poland hadn’t won.

Representative John Bell Williams of Mississippi has offered an amendment to the Foreign Aid Bill that will send shudders down what’s left of the spines of our professional international handerouters and raise whoops of jubilation from that sadly ignored factor in the foreign aid machine, the taxpaying American public. The amendment is this: to deny American aid to any country whose UN mission votes for admission of Communist China.