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...Valentine's Day 1949, dancing and crying "Long live Israel." After 15 years of Fascist pogroms and four more of Communist misery, the exhilarating dream of the promised land had suddenly become a reality. Thousands sold their last belongings to buy fantastically priced exit permits and steamship tickets, bade goodbye to their children and set forth to Israel, empty-handed but hopeful. By the end of 1951, when the Reds suddenly ordered a stop to emigration, 120,000 of Rumania's 350,000 Jews (the largest Jewish community in any satellite) had poured through Haifa into the great...
...happy occasion in the House of Commons. Sir Winston Churchill bade his sovereign a formal bon voyage and compared her globe-girdling trip with that of Sir Francis Drake, the first English captain to sail around the world. "It may well be that the journey which the Queen is about to take will be no less auspicious," said her majesty's first minister...
Perhaps his most famous applications of Platonism to modern society appeared in the Alumni Bulletin in 1948. The article bade educators to pay some attention to "failure stories" as well as success stories; "By purging man of the original sin of self sufficiency, tragedy makes him sociable and companionable," he writes. And then returning, as ever, to Plato, he concludes, "In Plato's words the philosopher has a view of all time and all existence. With such a perspective, he can put success in its place and failure in its place, and so be unshaken either by misfortune or good...
When the last ceremonies were over and the last toast drunk, the President and el Presidente bade each other a cordial goodbye and adios, and Ike motored 72 miles back to Texas. Laredo's mayor, who is named Hugh Cluck, greeted the weary but still beaming President, and saw him off on the Columbine for the trip back to Washington...
...bade, because the wick...