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Perhaps the world's most spectacularly homeless group of able young men is General Wladyslaw Anders' 160,000-strong II Polish Corps. They were looking to the New World. Argentina would take 20,000 as farmers and technicians. Site of the proposed settlement: the semi-arid plateaus of Patagonia with their thousands of acres of good sheep land...
...Four meeting thus closed were well symbolized by Jimmy Byrnes's circular doodles. For four weeks, the Ministers had moved, in vicious and constricting circles, around the central issue of peace. They had achieved synthetic agreement on their approach to peripheral problems, like Italian reparations arid the Balkan satellite peace treaties. But the central question was what kind of Europe the victors should raise from the ruins; in the "settlements" of Paris II, Russia's and the West's conflicting answers had been clarified, but not reconciled. In a report to the U.S. people this week, Secretary...
Ancient Americans. Probably the greenest diggers' pasture at present is the Western Hemisphere. During the last Ice Age, some 15,000 years ago, the now arid U.S. southwest was a well-watered temperate paradise swarming with bison, camels, mammoths, horses, giant ground-sloths. Clad in skins and armed with puny, flint-pointed darts, Ancient Man scurried about this dangerous, Pleistocene...
...demand you subside," cried Murray. "You've been . . . impertinent arid insulting...
...tortured, hypersensitive imagination, meant that she dallied with the barflies. Daughter Sarah had fled into the arms of a man she did not love, and her children's doleful life exactly reflected her own despair. When the whole miserable family sat around the table at Passover arid Father Braunowitz chanted: "And we cried unto the Eternal, the God of our fathers, and the Eternal heard our voice, saw our affliction, our sorrow, and our oppression," John ground his teeth with rage, and told himself that it was all a lie-"Jews were...