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Liquidated. In New Bern, N.C., after Hurricanes Connie and Diane roared over his land. Harlowe Waldrop advertised in the local Sun-Journal: "Have some waterfront property previously listed by the foot or acre, now reduced and offered by the gallon...
...About 1,000,000 other U.S. citizens got passports during this period, but Dr. Nathan ran into difficulties. As an economics professor at New York University and the executor of Physicist Albert Einstein's will, Dr. Nathan specifically wants to attend the Jubilee of the Relativity Theory in Bern, Switzerland, to seek cooperation from scientists in preserving and publishing Einstein's manuscripts. But the State Department first stalled, then denied Dr. Nathan his passport, vaguely letting it be known that there was damaging material in the files against...
Down Schlösslistrasse in Bern, one of the quietest streets in the quietest capital in Europe, walked four masked men. The time was 10 p.m. Coming to No. 5, which is the Rumanian legation, they climbed quietly over a high iron-grille fence. Looming above them in the snowy darkness was the big building presided over by Chargé d'Affaires Emeric Stoffel. To their left, in a chalet-type house near the street, was the chancellery, where lived Aurel Setu, nominally the chauffeur, but actually the secret police boss of the Communist legation. The leader...
...excitement was running high in Bern. As hundreds of citizens converged on the Schlösslistrasse, plainclothesmen cordoned the district. At 7:30 a.m. the Swiss Federal Council met in an extraordinary session. Other Communist legations were demanding protection...
Trouble at Four. Born into a cultivated music-teacher's family near Bern, Switzerland, Klee thought of making music his profession. He chose painting instead, simply "because it seemed to be lagging behind," and undertook rigorous formal training. Klee's chief means of advancing art was to let his unconscious whisper through his brush. At four, he would rush to his mother for protection from the "evil spirits" that appeared on his drawing paper. With age, he came to feel at home in his dream world of huge, dim forces, and was able to say, with none...