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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...separate answering notes, the U.S. and British ambassadors told what really happened. One sunny afternoon Group Captain Masterman and Colonel Teberg, out for a picnic in the countryside, were driving along the main highway north of Prague in Masterman's car. At a crossroads near Milovice they were stopped by a military policeman and directed to turn off down a side road that bordered on an airfield. About 500 yds. down the road, Masterman found his progress blocked by an army truck planted in the middle of the road. He stopped. Before he could turn around, another truck drove...
With rare courage and sense of destiny, they agreed. Next day, as banks closed, business came to a standstill and newspapers shut down in protest, tanks and armored cars rolled into the main streets. The business strikers refused to be overawed. Rojas fueled the opposition fire by calling together his puppet Constituent Assembly and ordering it to revoke the long-established sections of the constitution which decreed that a President must be elected by direct popular vote, and that no President may succeed himself...
Despite the joy most Poles take in their religion, the country has been sliding down toward the doldrums, after the first few heady months following the October coup. The main trouble is economic; as one worker put it last week: "Gomulka kicked out the Russians and brought back the church. That is very good. Now I am waiting to see if we will eat better...
...Harmon White in Lexington, Mass., nine miles northwest of downtown Boston. The exterior is finished in cedar to match the rustic surroundings. The interior is separated into functional areas on a triple-level scheme: three bedrooms and bath on the top level; living room, dining room, kitchen and main entrance on the middle level; playroom, utility room and garage (convertible into two more bedrooms) on the lower level...
...horrors of fire that time and again leveled the ramshackle towns of the West. In contrast there are the glittering balls in London's Marlborough House, yachting at Cowes and the stately bacchanals of the Rue de Tilsitt. It was a time when men grabbed for the main chance, when the difference between obscurity and unfathomable wealth could simply be the lucky stroke of a pickax. If John or Louise Mackay had a thought beyond material success, the book does not suggest it. They knew what they wanted and were content when they got it, even though Louise...