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...post office will be constructed on the City-owned Brattle Square parking lot, John Curry, City Manager, announced last night. The Cambridge City Council sold the site to contractor Frank Capaldi, who will erect the new building...
Polar Bear Erect. Stalin was a small, unhandsome man. Visitors were always surprised he was so short, guessed his height at 5 ft. 4 in., his weight from 150 Ibs. to 190 Ibs. His complexion was swarthy, sometimes yellowish, and his face was lightly pitted from a childhood smallpox. His hair was grey and stiff as a badger's, his mustache white. His expression was usually sardonic, his rare smile saturnine. When he laughed loudly he exposed a mouth full of teeth-jagged, yellow teeth-and the sound of his laughter was a controlled, relaxed, hissing chuckle...
...left arm was partly withered and sometimes in chilly weather he wore a glove on his left hand. Two toes of his left foot were grown together. He was stocky, but walked with the muffled ease of a polar bear erect, and, without being athletic, looked supple and active. At a Kremlin party in 1946, drinking Brüderschaft with Tito, he shouted: "There's still strength in me," and slipping his hands under bulky Tito's armpits, lifted him off the floor three times to the beat of a Russian folk melody on the phonograph...
Last week the University of Michigan told a strange story. Workers cleaning out a lab found a bundle of test tubes. Inside was dried blood. Officials sent for Dr. Novy. Now 88, he still carries his six-foot frame erect, talks and thinks fast. He took one look and exclaimed: "It's a chance in a million, but I think those tubes contained my lost virus...
Suddenly the grand plan to erect a European Army against Communism seemed to fall apart...