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Muscovites stood by disconsolately as their beloved cathedral with its huge golden cupola was razed to the ground. Workmen dug a gigantic pit, began to sink piles. Then suddenly they found that the ground was unsuitable, and suspended operations. That was some 15 years ago, and last week the gaping...
At his headquarters in nearby Louvigné, Lieut. Jean Leroux of the Gendarmerie Nationale got up from his desk and went to the roof. He was supposed to help the revenuers and he would have to discipline the tocsin-sounders, but there was no great rush. Leroux paid no attention...
Also, there is the question of organization. The long flashback in the middle of the book sags perceptibly. After a couple of chapters one is perfectly willing to accept the author's word for the fact that the social strata in a small New England town are extremely solidified. Mr...
*A hypothetical animal, credited to 14th Century French Philosopher Jean Buridan (and others), which suffered from the hypothetical dilemma of perfectly balanced but conflicting desires for two different piles of hay. Hypothetically, he starved to death.
Columbia had one more title to give-"vice president in charge of business affairs." When that job is filled, President Eisenhower will no longer be swamped, even when he is in Manhattan, with the paper work ("mountainous white piles") which has been coming from the scores of university offices under...