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This witness appeared with his head covered by a grotesque white hood and was identified only as "John Doe." The committee explained that it wanted to protect his relatives in Poland against Communist reprisals, though the witness himself had not requested anonymity. In an unhappy try for circus effect, the committee produced a genuine Russian pistol and got "Doe" to aim it at a volunteer victim while the flashbulbs popped...
Reassuring Farewell. The great city which would be her capital awaited the new Queen's arrival in stunned silence. "I've never seen Piccadilly Circus so quiet," said a London doorman. Only four months ago, King George's people had worried through his terrible operation and his slow recovery. Then they had seen him, a week ago, in newsreels and newsphotos, bareheaded and seemingly hale, waving a cheery farewell to his daughter at London airport. Despite his still haggard features, they had felt a surge of relief at the apparent improvement in his health. The royal tour...
...councilors decided that she was indeed the rightful sovereign, and at 7 p.m. the House of Commons met again to hear their report and swear allegiance to the new Queen. Then they adjourned. That night London was dark and still. The neon lights in Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus had been turned out and, except for restaurants, all public places were closed tight...
...snowball from the Munros of Foulis, and a white rose from the Duke of Atholl. The royal real-estate holdings are enormous: estates in Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset, beaches in Cornwall and Devon, 100,000 acres of farmland, immensely valuable land in London (the south side of Piccadilly Circus, both sides of Regent Street, two theaters, three restaurants and the Carlton Hotel). But Elizabeth "owns" these properties only nominally. They are administered by Crown Commissioners for the benefit of Parliament, under a bargain struck with George III in 1760. In return, Parliament will vote Elizabeth the Civil List, under which...
Until the answers are arrived at, the U.S. policy in Korea is not to walk out of the circus tent at Panmunjom...