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...British would not assume leadership of Western Europe. The Schuman plan-the most important act of Western statesmanship since the launching of the Marshall Plan-was a totally unexpected assertion that France could and would assume the leadership. It swept into the brains of Western policymakers like a gust of fresh wind into a musty study long unaired. It gave genuine promise that the idea of Western European integration would finally emerge from the realm of dreamers and talkers into regions as real as coal and steel...
...spent most of their waking hours planning escapes and digging tunnels; with the help of detection devices the camp guards found the tunnels and headed off the escapes almost every time.* But one spring day Prisoner John Clinton watched a sheet of newspaper hop the camp fence in a gust of wind and got an idea for an escape plan that worked...
...Fort Lauderdale, Fla., several thousand children gathered at Stranahan Field to see Santa parachute from a plane hired by the Chamber of Commerce. As he floated down, the children screamed in terror; a gust of wind wafted Santa onto some power lines nearby (see cut). Unhurt, Santa was helped down, and began passing out candy...
...employers are mostly small businessmen who must move rapidly and warily in a trade that is bitterly competitive, determinedly rapacious. A man with a design idea and a batch of orders can have a Cadillac and an establishment on Riverside Drive in six months. Then, like a gust of wind in a wheat field, women's minds change and a hundred employers find themselves back at the cutting table...
...mustached, kewpie-like face thrust aggressively forward, Gus Hall (real name Arno Gust Halberg), chairman of the Ohio Communist Party, sneered: "It sounds more like a kangaroo court than a court of the United States. I have heard more law and more constitutional law in kangaroo courts." Judge Medina ordered him to jail...