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...commentary: "We are now about to sign the mutual guarantee between EDC and the United Kingdom . . .We are now signing the NATO guarantee." Italy, Luxembourg and Holland followed. "Put some light on De Gasperi," shouted a cameraman, and there was light. After half-an-hour's scribbling, the ink was dry; so were the ministers. Arm in arm they marched out of the chamber to sample the Quai d'Orsay's champagne. On the E-shaped table, done up in red tape and sealing wax, they left the hopeful blueprints for a new Europe...
...train during Russia's civil war. "If there is ever a revolution in America," Ulrich used to say, "get yourself an armored train. It is the only comfortable way to go through a revolution." Pending a revolution, he taught Chambers all the wrinkles of underground work, from invisible ink to serving as a courier, to developing microfilms in the bathroom of a Gay Street apartment in Greenwich Village. In 1934 Ulrich returned to Russia. His final warning: "Remember, Bob, there are only two ways that you can really leave us: you can be shot by them...
...Spanish-descended hotbloods, dusty-footed Indian women and black West Indians lined up to deposit ballots marked (to aid the illiterate) with party symbols: a bell, a horseman, an ear of corn. Then, as a double precaution against double voting, each digged his fingers in a pot of indelible ink and presented his forearm to let one square inch of hair be shaved...
...solicitors state the financial woes of our 79 medical schools very frankly: inflation has coated their balance sheets with red ink; it now costs $10,000 to turn a B.A. into an M.D., and lack of funds threatens not only to reduce the number of medical students from lower income groups, but to freeze our annual supply of doctors...
...then they have overstepped their bounds. They have not be thought themselves where they are. Impressed with the organized fun of a Hammonasset Day, imbued with the planned debauchery of a Winter Carnival they have destroyed Harvard men's "splendid isolation." With their colleagues of the water pistols and ink-squirters they have made the ideal of gentlemanly living a hollow mockery...