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...better weather to greet the Austrians. Said the diplomat: "In these cases, Mr. Minister, the weather that matters is the weather you find when you leave." Interjected Deputy Prime Minister Anastas Mikoyan: "You can be sure the sun will be shining when they leave." The sun of Soviet officialdom beamed from the moment the Austrian plane touched down. The Austrians were wined, dined and feted, and the bonhomie spilled over in all directions. At a reception given by Molotov, U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen offered a toast to the speedy restoration of Austria's independence; Molotov declared it a good...
Welfare State. In Glasgow, during the trial of Charles Frazer, 26, for indecent behavior, Prosecuting Attorney J. W. Gibbs explained the reason why so many housewives undressed for scarlet fever examinations when Frazer told them he was a health inspector: the British are "so schooled to officialdom they are hesitant to challenge credentials...
...tenement, and many of the leaders traveled to Madras Gandhi-style, in jampacked third-class carriages. But they were painfully aware that India's Congress officials had since drifted away from the people; the old men on the mattress could detect a mounting outcry against Congress officialdom's growing flabbiness, its fondness for big houses and pomp. The old men were also disturbed by Nehru's disappointing campaign through Andhra...
More and more the Harvard officialdom has taken over Wadsworth, from the Hygiene people to the Summer School. Following a complete structural renovation in 1950, it became the Alumni Center, home of the Alumni Bulletin, the Harvard Fund Council, the University Marshal, and other such activities. Though this is very appropriate for the second oldest house in the Yard, still it is not like the old days. But who knows? Dean Bundy or someone may move in and Wadsworth, like Massachusetts Hall, will begin the road back...
...French people were bursting with pride over the succes formidable of their little, black-browed Premier in the U.S. In six days, Pierre Mendes-France had dispelled most of U.S. officialdom's lingering suspicions that he was a neutralist at heart and all too willing to flirt with Russia. U.S. negotiators learned to respect his tough-minded realism, and ordinary bystanders compulsively burst into applause as he passed. "The American people took M. Mendes-France to their hearts,'' said U.S. Ambassador to France Douglas Dillon, "and I can fairly state that . . . Franco-American relations have never been...