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Tired, 79-year-old Konrad Adenauer, only 24 hours out of the sickbed in which he had lain for ten days, smiled broadly over a triumphant glass of champagne. Said he: "This does away with Yalta...
...flickering light of oil lamps, five gravediggers. working before dawn in London's Highgate Cemetery, dug up the moldy, plain elmwood coffin of Karl Marx, father of Communism, whose remains had lain undisturbed for almost 62 years, ever since he died peacefully in his small London house. They reburied him in a larger Highgate lot, some 200 yards away. There, Britain's Marx Memorial Committee will erect a polished black granite monument (estimated cost: $14,-ooo) with a reverent inscription...
...official residence of Dr. Henry Hulme, rector of staid Canterbury University College, and arrested Pauline Parker on suspicion of murder. Next day they came back and picked up Dr. Hulme's daughter Juliet on the same charge. Near the blood-soaked ground where Pauline's mother had lain, police found a brick and near it a bloodstained stocking in which the brick had been inserted and swung like a bludgeon...
...years the thermonuclear bomb has lain like a half-seen nightmare in the back of the world's imagination. Scientists have mentioned it with awe in their voices...
...medical frost that had long lain upon New Haven, Conn, was thawed out last week. The Yale School of Medicine, opened in 1813, and the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital, dating from 1826, decided to get together in a formal medical center. Also joining the combine will be Yale's School of Nursing, its Psychiatric Institute, Department of Public Health and its famed Child Study Center (TIME...