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...young men of the Resistance he talked the talk they liked to hear. There would be a new France, he told them. Standing in a corridor, surrounded by a little group, he would analyze rigid party structures that had kept young men from the top. The new Fourth Republic, said Auriol, must have new leaders. In fact, the Fourth Republic has turned out to be a continuation of the Third, with the same defects and many of the same leaders, including Auriol...
There was gloom along the dingy staircase leading up over the grocery, and gloom in the drab corridor outside the apartment. But the Philadelphia reporter who climbed the stairs last week to pay a call on William Baird and his family found no gloom inside. Mrs. Baird had put some pork on for dinner. Her sons stood cheerful guard on the preparations as she called out, "Better watch that stuff or it'll burn up." One son, Robert, 20, could not walk, but he was as cheerful as the rest...
...Carolyn Joan's eyesight got steadily worse. Last week the Purcells brought the little girl to Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, to seek hope from a team of four specialists. After sending Carolyn Joan to play in the hospital corridor, the specialists confirmed the original diagnosis. The little girl had retinoblastoma, a cancer of the eyes. The doctors urged the parents to let them remove both eyes immediately...
...with their guesses and contradictions. That day on the dot of 4, small and anonymous-looking in an unpressed grey suit, the Prime Minister of Britain walked into the White House and shook hands with the President. A few minutes later, Clement Attlee and Harry Truman strode down the corridor and into the green-draped Cabinet Room where Franklin Roosevelt had consulted with Winston Churchill in other crisis days...
...Gervais party was pushing on. They spent the night in a refuge hut. Next morning at 6 they started climbing again. One of the climbers froze his foot and went back under protest. "By noon," said Viallet later, "we had dug through snow up to our chests across the corridor of avalanches . . . We drank grog. That's very important on the mountain in winter. By 4 o'clock we reached another shelter. There was much wind, very much, and very strong, and it was terribly cold [ - 22° F, according to army meteorologists]. Our shoes were frozen solid...