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Hull, "for nearly 100 years, and the people are worse off than they were at the beginning." He proposed that an international trusteeship be set up with a polyglot membership including French, Chinese, Russian, Philippine, U.S. and Indo-Chinese representatives, to prepare the country for independence. But the idea died with F.D.R. The French moved back into Indo-China, and with monumental lack of foresight, immediately reimposed the same old colonial order. Thus was the stage set for Dien-bienphu, partition and the present war. Historian Schlesinger concedes with disarming candor that history is a terribly "tricky" tool for predicting...
...polyglot group of California radicals known as the "New Left" black balled both Reagan and Democratic Governor Pat Brown, urged the electorate to vote instead for the memory of Pope John, "the cat who dug what the establishment politicians don't dig: a loving concern for people...
Realizing that a glass faÇade would only allow the polyglot architecture of Madison Avenue to intrude, Breuer walled off his neighbors with concrete blinders and nearly solid walls. Controlled ventilation and artificial light may make windows obsolete, but lack of them has the drawback of inducing claustrophobia. To allow "visual contact with the outside," he added seven trapezoidal windows, including the largest on the front facade, which acts as both a signature and a beacon...
...where only the cry of the loon could be heard a few years ago, the stillness was shattered by the hissing and hammering of the world's largest nickel mine and smelter. In the Alberta foothills northwest of Edmonton, the ring of sledge hammer on steel counterpointed the polyglot curses of Portuguese, Greek and Italian gandy dancers, pushing the Alberta Resources Railway 111 miles north to the coal and gypsum deposits of the Peace River country...
...Manhattan's polyglot 19th District, Democrat Leonard Farbstein, a moderate on the war, seeks nomination for a sixth term but faces a rough scrap with City Councilman Theodore Weiss, who demands an end to all bombing in Viet Nam and a U.S. ceasefire...