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Scapegoat Needed. As recently as three years ago, Luca was at the top of Rumania's Communist heap-along with homely Foreign Minister Ana Pauker (also purged, demoted, and possibly awaiting trial) and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who is still Premier. But in 1952 the Red regime drastically devalued the Rumanian leu, thus depriving the people of most of their savings. News of the impending devaluation leaked out; party favorites and some others got rid of their old currency ahead of time. As Finance Minister, Luca took the rap. In addition, the regime now needed a villain to blame...
...Jefferson and Franklin helped inspire him to new labors. He gradually converted his museum into a huge panorama of natural history by mounting thousands of birds, insects, snakes and animals for display. In 1801 he paid a farmer $300, a rifle and a couple of dresses for an odd heap of bones and permission to dig for more. From these, in his greatest scientific coup, he pieced together the first mastodon ever assembled...
...nine-story apartment house. At 1 :07 on the morning the earthquake struck, 25 construction workers were sleeping peacefully on the unfinished third floor of the new building. Less than a minute later, as the whole town awoke to a nightmare, building and workers together collapsed in a heap like a house of cards. Near by, a cathedral toppled over, its steeple bell bouncing into rubble. Army barracks, a sports stadium, police headquarters, a hospital, a prison, and the post office fell like split kindling. The palatial Hotel Baudouin swayed and plunged, then foundered, turning its desk register into...
...looked like a Madrasi . . ."), Professor Redding could penetrate layers of Indian life that are closed to white men. It was his job to speak up for America, and he did so; but India's universities made him suffer for it. Because of his color, he was urged to heap abuse on all white men, and particularly on white Americans. When he spoke, instead, of improving race relations in the U.S., his hot-eyed young listeners denounced him as a hireling of "American imperialism." The American found this ironic, for India's rectitudinous liberals were as intolerantly racist...
Zachariades had long ago learned that in the internal struggle for party power, success means the survival of the shiftiest. His formula was impressively simple: never let anyone else get too strong; heap the blame on someone else when things go wrong. For 20 years the technique kept Zachariades all-powerful in Greek Communism. In 1950 he used it on the "old man" of Greek Communism, the late George Sianto's, who was head of the party in Greece during the years of Nazi occupation. When the tide of war started going against Greece's Communist guerrillas early...