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There Shishekly too was diplomatically vague about his refugee resettlement program, and preferred to talk about land reform and reclamation. Lighting a Pall Mall, he said: "We hope the democratic countries-first of which is the U.S.-will help us. With money we can raise the standards of our people and fight bad ideas which are coming from . . ." He paused, leaving the sentence incomplete. His secretary, a young, English-speaking lieutenant, smiled and said: "You know what country the colonel means...
...formally resigned from the party. "Brother," he was told, "you don't resign . . . You are expelled." "This pall has been hanging over me for twelve or more years," he went on. "I cannot live with it any more." Said Senator Ferguson: "It is very refreshing to realize that there has finally been a place that you could come to . . . that a man can come in and testify and free his soul...
Granted, there have been and will be meetings where the worst of the oratory is matched by will, whose occurence is and will be a pall on the free world's get-togethers. A few thousand delegates from the winters of Democratic Centralism will soon sojourn in Moscow to applaud Comrade Malenkov's paean to production, and their unanimity will please no one this side of Workers' Heaven. And the fact that the snarls at Panmunjom have given way to terse announcements of adjournment, and that these brief ceremonics have shifted from a lcaky tent to a wooden structure, does...
Granted, there have been and will be meetings where the worst of the oratory is matched by will, whose occurrence is and will be a pall on the free world's get-togethers. A few thousand delegates from the winters of Democratic Centralism will soon sojourn in Moscow to applaud Comrade Malenkov's paean to production, and their unanimity will please no one this side of Workers' Heaven. And the fact that the snarls at Panmunjom have given way to terse announcements of adjournment, and that these brief ceremonies have shifted from a leaky tent to a wooden structure, does...
Chesterfield's makers, who only a month before had solemnly denied any intention of bringing out a new cigarette, played a couple of shrewd tricks with the new cigarette. Unlike American Tobacco, whose Pall Mall is king of the kings, it does not have to have separate newspaper, radio and TV ads, can make the same ad serve double duty. A still bigger advantage is that, where OPS has refused to allow price boosts for existing standard or king-size brands, Chesterfield was able to get 1? more for its king by proving it costs more to make...