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When a young man with a good memory shouted “Long live free Hungary” and jumped Premier Aleksei Kosygin from behind as the Soviet visitor strolled about with his host, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Mr. Kosygin emerged with rumpled jacket and unruffled composure. Not so Mr. Trudeau. A “very humiliating event for Canadians,” said the Prime Minister, who thereupon dispatched 250 policemen to protect the Soviet embassy from the fifty rabbis keeping vigil there, in silent protest against the harassment of Soviet Jews. How refreshing if Mr. Trudeau, so famous for his spontaneity and candor, had said: “I quite agree with the Hungarian’s resentment, but we shouldn’t use violence against Kosygin, not even to make him feel at home.”

A government handout glows that the Cost of Living Council has so far answered “750,000 questions” about President Nixon’s wage-price freeze. The Society for the Obliteration of Bureaucracy, however, deduces that 749,-999 of the requests were identical: “Who the hell does he think he is, anyway?”

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When a young man with a good memory shouted “Long live free Hungary” and jumped Premier Aleksei Kosygin from behind as the Soviet visitor strolled about with his host, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Mr. Kosygin emerged with rumpled jacket and unruffled composure. Not so Mr. Trudeau. A “very humiliating event for Canadians,” said the Prime Minister, who thereupon dispatched 250 policemen to protect the Soviet embassy from the fifty rabbis keeping vigil there, in silent protest against the harassment of Soviet Jews. How refreshing if Mr. Trudeau, so famous for his spontaneity and candor, had said: “I quite agree with the Hungarian’s resentment, but we shouldn’t use violence against Kosygin, not even to make him feel at home.”

A government handout glows that the Cost of Living Council has so far answered “750,000 questions” about President Nixon’s wage-price freeze. The Society for the Obliteration of Bureaucracy, however, deduces that 749,-999 of the requests were identical: “Who the hell does he think he is, anyway?”