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This week Antoine Pinay was back on the rostrum to face more confidence votes, his crinkly hair neatly combed down, his left hand tugging primly at his waistcoat in a characteristic gesture. Another crisis was at hand. Antoine Pinay was gladder than ever that he had left his toothbrush at home, and not in the Premier's palace...
...bird-loving National Audubon Society began its week with happiness; one of its prospectors had discovered a large flock of flamingos in Yucatan. A few days later, the happiness turned to ecstasy when gladder news arrived from Texas. At Aransas National Wildlife Refuge near Corpus Christi, the message said, a precious egg had been hatched. From it had stepped a baby whooping crane, the first ever born in captivity. Thus, according to the most respected count, there were 38, not 37, survivors of the once numerous breed of whooping cranes...
...left Rome for Milan, the boiling sun hid under a cloud. Cooling showers put an end to the heat wave that had stifled the city. At the Argentine Embassy, a wan official ran a finger under his collar and said: "I don't know whether I'm gladder that the rain came or that Eva has gone." But in France and England, there were other Argentine officials whose worries were just beginning...
Shortly after World War II began, it was decided to revive the play. There were some fears that it might have ad-libbed its usefulness, that jesting at patriotism might not go down in wartime. The fears were groundless. With tension in the air, people have been gladder than ever to relax, and with soldiers in the audience, the wisecracks are even rawer than they used...
...nervous did Adamic finally become about Jugoslavian censorship that he decided to leave the country unexpectedly. Safely across the border with the notes for his book, he breathed more easily. Though he was glad to have seen the old country again, he was yet gladder that he did not have to live there. He feels sorry for Jugoslavians, thinks they are condemned to be cannon fodder at no distant date...