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...dessus la Téte." In France, the picture was even clearer. A little man had got good & sore at the Communists. When Paul Ramadier took office (before anyone had heard of the Truman Doctrine), he was generally considered an inoffensive type with some administrative ability. But the Communists pushed him around too much. During the last Government crisis (TIME, May 12), he suddenly declared: "J'en ai par-dessus la téte (I'm fed to the gills)," and fired the Communist Ministers. It was the Truman Doctrine that gave him the means to stay...
...Roman man-in-the-street simply says: 'Thank God, we know where the U.S. stands.' But one important reservation was expressed by a barber in a well-known shop patronized by haggard Assembly deputies. Said he: 'Well, I suppose all this makes things clearer, but when it's between Greece and Turkey on one side and Russia and Yugoslavia on the other, it's a devil of a choice you give...
...examples of the reading. A student who signs up for Humanities 3b gets a clear picture of what the course expects to give him, and how it expects to do it. Consequently, he is unlikely to change his mind about it after he has signed up, has a much clearer picture of what will happen to him next term and can plan the rest of his program accordingly. This informed person probably will add neither his name to the petition pile nor his person to the shopper horde...
...shore he had dimly seen was already a little clearer. Reporters, of course, had asked Mr. Arnall if he had any presidential aspirations. He gazed modestly at the ceiling. "I think that you play the cards as they fall. I can't see forcing one's luck," said Mr. Arnall...
...Neighbors. Nowhere in divided Poland was the pattern of these scenes clearer than in a six-story limestone apartment building at No. 16 Aleja Szucha (Warsaw's Pennsylvania Avenue), where two prominent Poles reside in two modest flats. One was little-known Jakub Berman, Under Secretary of State without Portfolio (but with plenty of jobs), one of the most powerful members of Poland's Communist ruling clique. The other was lantern-jawed, indomitable Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the anti-Communist Polish Peasant Party who, of all Polish public figures today, enjoys perhaps the highest popularity and the lowest...