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Austria rejoiced. Bells pealed, brass bands blared and thumped, choirs sang the national anthem, and the Vienna woods resounded to waltzes. For the first time in 17 years, Austria was free and sovereign. At 11:30 a.m. one day last week, the foreign ministers of Russia, France, Britain and the U.S. met in the marble room of Vienna's Belvedere Palace and signed their names with gold pens to the Austrian State Treaty...
...band struck up the National Anthem, and a salute was fired. "After the thunder of the salute," whispered Radio Moscow's announcer, "how quiet it is in Red Square...
...outside world. Inside his company, he operated like a benign patriarch. IBM's workers were among the best paid in industry, had other benefits that few companies had. At company banquets, Watson liked to lead his employees in singing company songs such as his Hail to IBM* anthem. Every executive, both big and little, became a polished speechmaker, and all dressed like Watson. He wanted them to look neat...
...military band struck up Haiti's national anthem, then The Star-Spangled Banner. As cannon boomed a 21-gun salute, Magloire led the Vice President at a brisk pace to review the guard of honor. "You will find a warm welcome here," said the Vice President. "America," replied the visitor in French, "is making one of the greatest efforts undertaken for the true liberation...
...same. Animal Farm is an important film, and intensely interesting to see. The voices of the animals, all spoken by Maurice Denham, are wonderfully satisfying. And Matyas Seiber's rousing anthem, Beasts of England-in which Imitator Denham sings a dozen voices at once, a roaring chorus of many sound tracks blended into one-is a proletarian hymn ("Something," as Orwell imagined, "between Clementine and La Cucuracha") that can make the most conservative heart go pitapat...