Word: greats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some American comment was indeed impolite and some of it was unfair; a great deal more was sound and factual, and it could have given British readers a close view of their plight, which they appeared never to have gotten so clearly from their own press or their government. Britons who, when they got the U.S. loan, complained that U.S. prices were too high (and would cut down the amount of goods Britain would be able to buy in the U.S.) now cried that U.S. prices were too low; British manufacturers could not compete with them. Other Laborite headlines: "Stop...
...outside Jerusalem which had been renamed the Givat Herzl (Herzl's Hill). In groups of ten, farmers, workers, businessmen, old settlers and new immigrants slowly walked by and emptied bags of earth into the grave. A rabbi read the Kaddish (prayer for the dead). Drums sounded. Then the great crowd, estimated at 100,000, sang Hatikvah, the Zionist anthem...
...Santiago last week, a student protest against a 14% hike in bus fares turned into ugly rioting over the cost of living. The rioters even tried to rush La Moneda, the presidential palace, but tear gas held them off until palace guards could slam shut the great wooden doors...
...warped to fit an irrelevant plan...To the extent that they are prostituting their, sciences in this direction, the Russians will be the losers." But, he added wistfully, "we shall lose some also, because they are excellent scientists, and they with us could help so much in the great scientific attacks on the ignorance, diseases, and the poverty...
Died. Niall Diarmid Campbell, 77, tenth Duke of Argyll, hereditary chief (Mac Cailean Mhor, a rank created in 1286) of famed Clan Campbell (green, black, navy blue tartan); at his castle in Argyll, Scotland. A crotchety, feudal-minded bachelor, the multi-titled duke (Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, Marquis of Lome and Kintyre) regarded the modern world as a personal outrage, once threatened to toss bureaucratic "snoopers" into his dungeons...