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...harmony with its uneventful life, Grays Hall slipped quietly into Harvard Yard in 1863. Concerned only with the Civil War, the College did not even bless the house with a ground-breaking ceremony. Its drab appearance well fitting the role, Grays dragged through its colorless career until 1950 when a decrepit fourth floor room gave up the struggle and collapsed...
...placed the proper wreaths on the proper tombs, beamed the proper smiles and said the proper words to Congress, diplomats and the press. His mission had no specific goal beyond an expression of friendship-no protests to make, no new loans or grants to ask-all in all, a colorless performance by the standards to which Americans have become accustomed...
Celal Bayar's life has been anything but colorless. The 70-year-old President can look back on his part in the late great Kemal Ataturk's revolt, upon the epic years when a modern nation was created upon the body of a dying empire, upon a successful career in banking, upon a break with the party founded by Ataturk, upon victory in a free election, followed by a dramatic reversal of Turkey's trend toward statism...
...sheet has two different colorless coatings, one on each side. Where the typewriter face or pencil point presses the two coatings together, a chemical reaction turns the lower sheet's top coating blue...
...home, he was told: "The Russian home is a sanctuary, and to enter it would be a sacrilege." Helen Vlachou, editor-publisher of Greece's No. 1 newspaper, Kathimerini, was impressed by the beauties of Moscow but depressed by the "civilian army of robots that walk the streets, colorless, drab and ugly. Where are the people that would give this city life, joy, happiness, a smile in this regimented society?" Ambassador Sergeev might well have thought twice about trying to fool the Greeks on the meaning of democracy, since they invented the word...