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...partial collapse of a YMCA pool roof in West Roxbury because of corrosion has not prompted Harvard or the city to change building inspection procedures, officials said yesterday...
Promoted were KGB Gen. Vladimir A. Kryuchkov, who presided over a partial opening up of his secrecy bound agency, and economic planning chief Yuri D. Maslyukov...
Although the ticket prices were a bit steep ($25 for "partial view"), the proceeds went to help the homeless in Cambridge--certainly an important cause. Along with the concert program, everyone received a newspaper, explaining the problems facing the area's growing homeless population and the programs the concert proceeds were going to help...
...question in any such speculation about a partial or complete Hitler victory is whether peace would have brought any kind of stability. Could Hitler have established a continental network of satellite states under German domination, like that in Vichy France? And could such a network of satellites have lasted as long as the one created by Stalin after the war? It was partly wartime hysteria that led to the savagery of Nazi rule in the occupied lands, not only against the Jews but also against the Slavs, some of whom had originally welcomed the Wehrmacht for liberating them from Stalin...
Rumors, possibly false, suddenly spread in May 1938 that German troops were concentrating on the Czech frontier. Bene ordered a partial mobilization, the British expressed "grave concern," and the French warned Berlin that they were ready to fight. One of Hitler's top generals thereupon announced that it had all been a mistake, that there had been no German troop movements. By appearing to stand firm for the first time, the Allies seemed to have made Hitler back down. But this apparent victory had two important results: the Allies were appalled at how near to war they had come...