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...world politics, which the U.S. would now have to play to the hilt, would not be easy. Peace had merely sharpened the questions which had lain dormant in the smoke of battle. The political problems of the Far East, thrown into focus by internal strife in China (see FOREIGN NEWS), suddenly seemed to rear higher than the old problems of Europe. But Europe's woes were still there, too, stirred by hunger and unrest...
Habeas Corpus. In St. Louis, Mortician August Kron Jr. confessed to police that "relatives would not put out the money for the funeral," led them to the basement where the embalmed body of a woman had lain in an open wooden casket for 40 years...
...East Room. Here, on another April afternoon, Abraham Lincoln's body had lain, his little sons Tad and Robert sitting at his feet, General Ulysses S. Grant in sash and white gloves at his head. Lincoln's coffin had rested under a black canopy so high it almost touched the ceiling. Windows, mirrors and. chandeliers had been smothered in crepe and the room had been ostentatiously gloomy. Now the East Room was just a corner of a big house, long lived...
More important still, the Rio experiment had proved that hard work and cooperation, plus Government help without Government interference, could beat the old, relentless U.S. economy of waste; most of the land of Rio Farms had lain unused during the whole, dreary dust-bowl migration...
Splenetic Herbert George (Outline of History) Wells is a historian whose interest in the remote past is based on his interest in the immediate present. He also brandishes words like a Martian. From the sickbed where he has lain for months, the 78-year-old socialist last week sent London's pinko Tribune a sizzling, unsolicited philippic entitled Churchill Must Go, flaying Winston Churchill's Greek policy...