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...Garden plant was taken by the state last spring as part of eminent domain proceedings to build the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway near North Station. Originally, the Garden had intended to move the ice-making machinery from the Boston Arena to the Garden. Had this plan gone through, the Arena would not have been available for college practice and games this year...
...Alamo was more than a century ago. Texans feel that the U.S. Government is rustling them out of their birthright. Texas was a sovereign nation which entered the Union voluntarily, and by the terms of the annexation agreement of 1845, she was allowed to retain control of her public domain, which, Texans say, stretches 10½ miles out into the Gulf of Mexico. Other coastal states claim the offshore oil under general provisions of the U.S. Constitution. The fact that Texas tidelands as yet have produced practically no oil did not lessen Texans' fury against President Truman this year...
...This nation is Christian ... It is in the religious domain that we can see most clearly that America does not make a part of the 'modern world.' The great Annunciation of this modern world, of which Nietzsche was the herald, 'God is dead,' has missed America. One has the impression that it did not reach this far. Or if it is noticed, it is not understood. It has no grip on this nation. This nation is pious. Perhaps it is necessary to be 40 centuries old in order to feel and live atheism as certain Europeans...
...Democrats seem pleased with their platform and Republicans should be pleased with one aspect of it: the Democratic platform proves to the hilt the Republican contention that no aspect of life is outside the Fair Deal's view of the Federal Government's domain...
East Germany's Communist government decided to dissolve these provinces: Brandenburg, once the domain of the Margrave of Brandenburg for whom Johann Sebastian Bach composed his six famous concertos: Saxony, birthplace of Otto the Great, founder of the Holy Roman Empire; Mecklenburg, once obedient to the Duke of Saxony; Saxony-Anhalt, which produced Martin Luther and George Frederick Handel; Thuringia, a center of Luther's Reformation...