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...morphine. Within five minutes both were asleep. Athanassios lit two lanterns as a signal. Ashore, his waiting brother Christakis hastily stripped off his clothes, dodged into a doorway to avoid two approaching soldiers, then darted naked across 50 ft. of waterfront road to dive into the icy harbor. Soon afterward, Athanassios hauled him aboard the Dynamo. With engine snorting, running lights burning bright and passengers sweetly sleeping, the two brothers then set out for Greece...
Police arrive shortly afterward, and after a quick investigation took the man to his Belmont residence, where he was placed under observation...
...Radcliffe's president is the first to admit that his growing college is still far from ideal. The most critical problems are of course financial. During the war and the years afterward, spiraling costs took a severe toll on the school's resources. Jordan tersely summarizes the strictures of these lean years in a sentence from his Report to the Trustees for 1949-50: "We have necessarily grown somewhat shabby during these recent years when the preparation of a budget could only be described as an act of faith...
...performance, to Soprano Seefried, "is like giving birth. And I know what I say; my daughter is almost four. Afterward you are empty, physically empty. Before, you have this thing, like a little world inside you, and then you give it, and you are empty. It is a terrible thing, not an easy thing." But that is the way Soprano Seefried likes it to be. "I do not make a career," she says. "I make a life...
...tell him in a private conversation, and Churchill watched it from about five yards away. "I can see it all as if it were yesterday. He [Stalin] seemed to be delighted. A new bomb! Of extraordinary power! Probably decisive on the whole Japanese war! What a bit of luck!" Afterward, Churchill asked Truman: "How did it go?" The President answered: "He never asked a question." The reason for Stalin's lack of curiosity became clear in later years, but in this account Churchill does not go into postwar disclosures of espionage...