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...Rich and robust a decade ago, it has become the Common Market's weakest link. Mobs last winter had run through the streets, hurling cobblestones, shouting hate. The two traditional political foes-the Socialists and the Social Christians-bickered on and on. Then last week they buried the hatchet and joined to form a coalition government...
...Grover Cleveland's Assistant P.M.G. before he became his Vice President, is to be hung there too. Day was pleased to learn that the first Adlai was so aggressive in uprooting Republican postmasters and replacing them with Democrats that he was known around Washington as "The Hatchet...
...Manhattan next day, stocky, florid Valerian Zorin clumped in through the big wood door at the side of the U.N. Security Council chamber to launch the Russian offensive in the biggest propaganda forum of them all. At 59, Chief Soviet Delegate Zorin had done hatchet jobs before. Zorin was the Ambassador to Czechoslovakia who helped organize the Soviet plot that converted the Czechs' wobbly democracy into an armed dictatorship and that very possibly helped Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk "fall" to his death in the courtyard of the Czech Foreign Ministry. He has served as Ambassador to Bonn, more recently...
...Having just seen John Wayne's The Alamo, I was amazed to read your hatchet job in your Nov. 7 issue. The review, which found fault with everything except the institution of John Wayne himself, was filled with distortions and evidenced a deliberately hostile reviewer ("the picture was as flat as Texas"). No mention was made that the picture has a patriotic theme showing how diverse and often feuding men banded together with the common purpose of fighting for liberty...
Harvard and Yale men have a talent for burying the hatchet, beer mug, or whatever may be handy and enjoying the year's biggest night together...