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...Manchester Guardian was reminded of a parallel: "In 1916 we shot the leaders of the Easter Rebellion. By 1921 more Irishmen than ever were fighting us in the name of Pearse and Connolly, and the resentment which our action aroused has not died away...
...zvon's Cambridge premier was Easter Sunday of 1931. When Andronoff came up to practice for his opening concert, students raged, neighbors protested, and it is said that one day he left the tower just before a policeman appeared to stop the din of sextatonic harmony...
...engine has done its bit for God as well as mammon. In 1870, with only 26 million people, Italy had 150,000 priests; today there are more than 47 million Italians, but only 92,000 priests. Even so, more people were baptized in 1955; more went to Communion this Easter than ever in history. One reason : motor scooters...
Until last Thursday special licenses from the Department of Foreign Commerce were required to export Easter egg dye, hair tonic, dentures, and baby bibs to the Soviet Union. these and 700 other significant non-strategic commodities are now absolved from the licensing requirement and may be freely shipped to the Soviet bloc by American traders. By this action the Administration is attempting to pacify domestic exporters and foreign especially British, critics who have been charging the U.S. with obstructing world trade and have been agitating for increased U.S. commercial relations with Russia...
...first warm weather of spring, descending on Berlin at the Easter holidays, gave thousands of Berliners the urge to visit friends or go sightseeing in the opposite sector of their divided city. Trains between east and west operated at twice their usual capacity, and border traffic was unusually heavy. But not everyone was on a holiday jaunt. By last week 5,400 East Germans had taken advantage of the holiday crush to seek refuge in West Berlin. Defecting at the rate of 900 a day, they created the biggest mass rush to the West since the anti-Communist riots...