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Clearing the Way. Long before Tito and his Junoesque wife arrived at the Bois de Boulogne Station in their special blue and silver armor-plated train, all known anti-Titoist refugees in Paris were placed under surveillance. The most ardent of them were rounded up, along with a motley crew of anarchists, royalists, diehard Yugoslav Catholics and Cominform Communists, and shipped off to Corsica for a week's vacation-food, wine and sightseeing-at France's expense. A small army of about 15,000 police, plainclothesmen, helmeted Gardes Republicaines and firemen were deployed over Paris to help keep...
...What we need is to turn out of our colleges young men with ardent convictions on the side of the right," Theodore Roosevelt once wrote, "--not young men who can make a good argument for right or wrong as their interest bids them...
...retirement after three heart attacks, but still an ardent cryptanalyst, William spends happy hours with his wife Elizabeth working at their hobby. They will soon publish a book, intended to prove, by cryptanalysis, that the works of Shakespeare were written by Shakespeare...
...forth from Kaliningrad (née Konigsberg) on the cruiser Ordzhonikidze, Scotland Yard completed its survey of more than 200 Russian and satellite exile groups, to make sure that none of their more ardent spirits would have a chance to take a potshot at the visitors...
...contradictory character. A cold scientist in the days when he was dissecting the nervous system of crayfish, he gave play to another side of his personality when he took his plunge into the Unconscious; even some of his ardent followers concede that in psychoanalysis Freud was unscientific. By nature both tolerant and reflective, he could also be both impatient and intolerant. A searching student of human nature who saw it in all its shades of grey, he yet had a naive way of seeing all acquaintances as either black or white-with the added complication that white friend could turn...