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What made the Russians decide to part with such loot? Politics, probably. General elections will be held in East Germany next week, and Premier Otto Grotewohl's regime needs bolstering. At ceremonies celebrating the return of the loot, Grotewohl orated: "In saving all these priceless sculptures and paintings from destruction, while American bombers reduced Germany's cultural centers to rubble, the Soviet army once again demonstrates its noble mission and its high ideals." Nonsense, commented one high museum official behind his hand. "The Russians simply confiscated everything...
...Loot Song. In Sydney, Australia, police, after finding a traffic summons with his name and address on it inside a burglarized garage, nabbed Brian William Quinn, 22, who pleaded guilty to the robbery, explained: "I must have dropped the summons when I took out my handkerchief to wipe off my fingerprints...
...charging students for these spaces, it can recoup whatever outlay it might make to the City. But a proposal providing capital for the actual building of the facility without assuring the University's rights would be a pointless exercise in charity. If University Hall is putting up half the loot, it ought to get its money's worth in material terms as well as good will...
...contest that's fantabulous? Then, guys and gals, listen! Just write, in 50 words or less, a statement saying 'I am going back to school because.' Enter today-that sawbuck will look pretty sharp in your pocketbook! The grand prize winner will win $100 in loot. Take part in all these kicks!" Sample promotion tagline: "The little red school house is-well-like...
Orwell himself had a few notions which some critics today would find odd. For instance, he was convinced that British bellies were largely fed on the loot of Empire; it has not turned out that way. But Orwell's polemics against bearded, fruit-juice-drinking pacifists, cranks, snobs, snob-bolsheviks, cowards in the socialist movement is devastating stuff, and this lends sharp irony to the book today. With great acumen the present publishers have reprinted Victor Gollancz's original foreword, in which the socialist publisher apologizes for the heretical opinions of his socialist writer. Says Gollancz in shocked...