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...fishermen in shallow wooden canoes spear fish with steel-tipped lances. Across the lake it is possible to see the outlines of the Albanian city of Scutari (pop. 29,000). That is just about the only view an outsider can get of Albania today, but from the stories that drift across the frontier, it is possible to piece together a more accurate picture. Albania is the only satellite state which is not joined geographically to the Soviet family. Tito's Yugoslavia separates Albania from Communist Bulgaria and the other Russian satellites. This makes it hard for Russia...
...social and welfare activities), Churchill last week turned his old phrasemaking genius on Attlee & Co. Most striking Churchillisms: "Mr. Attlee [leads] that cluster of lionhearted limpets, a new phenomenon in our natural history . . . who are united by their desire to hold on to office at all costs . . . Our affairs drift and bump and flop...
...shopkeepers sit hunched on their heels, willing to haggle, but apparently unconcerned about customers. The crowds drift past, slowly, pausing to talk and exclaim and now & then to ask a price. Their money, peeled with deliberation from well-thumbed rolls, or dredged from purses hauled from women's skirt bands, goes mostly to the shopkeepers behind the great shallow straw baskets of grain...
German languages and Literature is one of the fields to which the University points when it expresses concern that Harvard's resources are badly utilized because undergraduates tend to drift into a few huge departments...
Most Government bond traders were still mystified as to just how free the bond market would be under the new policy. Last week's action indicated that FRB will support the market at least partially whenever bonds drift very far below par.' And those Government seers who had predicted dire things if FRB stopped supporting U.S. bonds above par, had been proved wrong...