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Surprise. General Leonid Govorov's blow last week caught the Finns and their German allies by surprise. In next-door Sweden, observers predicted Finland's collapse within three months, voiced doubt that Nazi General Eduard Dietl would rush his nine divisions from the north to help the hard-pressed Finns...
...with them; it is also their greatest talent. One of the smaller of Europe's peoples, they never had notions of grandeur, always realized that their role is to react rather than to act: to adjust themselves to conditions not of their making-and to survive. Unlike their next-door Slav neighbors, the Poles, the Czechs never believed in having more than one superior enemy at a time, never dreamed of going down in a romantic blaze of glory. Their national history is one long, continued search for allies. To them, foreign policy is not an appendix...
...Raymor is as much an unofficial part of Harvard as its next-door neighbor on Huntington Avenue, Symphony Hall. It is inhabited by lonely girls who are just aching for a dancing partner. You pay $.50 to get in and then you ask whom you will to dance. There are no more charges, and you may escort the young lady to her home if you wish, and if she's willing...
...Small Name. In Valley Falls, N.Y., Clifford Lewis, whose wife's name is Frances, arrived from Troy, moved into his new home, found his next-door neighbor is Clifford Lewis, whose wife's name is Frances...
...Raymor is as much an unofficial part of Harvard as its next-door neighbor on Huntington Avenue, Symphony Hall. It is inhabited by lonely girls who are just aching for a dancing partner. You pay $.50 to get in and then you ask whom you will to dance. There are no more charges, and you may escort the young lady to her home if you wish, and if she's willing...