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Establishment of such a state must come in an atmosphere of international consent, Eban said, pointing out that almost all disinterested countries in the U.N. were in favor of such a settlement. He saw a "fair omen" for the future of international cooperation in the alignment of the United States and Russia on the question...
...Hendricks left the Frost cottage, with the poet's promise to lecture at the new college, the aurora borealis was flashing across the skies; Hendricks took it as a good omen. At midnight he reached the home of another summertime neighbor and friend, Dorothy Thompson. She liked the idea, too, and agreed to help. So did Author Dorothy Canfleld Fisher, Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Pianist Rudolf Serkin...
...York Post's Columnist F.P.A. thought he saw an omen in Harry Truman's nostalgia for the Senate. "Lord!" wrote Adams. "After J. Q. Adams had been President he became a representative from Massachusetts." For omen-sighters there was a better precedent. Like Harry Truman, Andrew Johnson was a Senator before death made him President; six years after he left the White House he was again elected a Senator (from Tennessee...
Spectators agreed that it was an excellent omen...
...Good Omen. Despite these little difficulties, Burman independence was coming along very smoothly. The Burmans thought they knew why. The day Aung San had taken office, his four-day-old son had died. "This is a very good omen," said the Burmans. "If somebody in Aung San's family had to leave us, it is better that his little one should go. It bodes long life for our noble leader, and success in his efforts to build a free Burma...