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Some of them recalled such a portent as Gromyko smiling at the U.N. Assembly's opening session. Others reported that Russian officers, after months of isolation, showed up at a U.S. Army cocktail party in Berlin and were pretty pleasant. France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman confirmed that U.S.-Russian talks had taken place-on the "corridor level...
...free to act without interference from the politicians. Sophoulis would head the new government as titular Premier, but the work of holding it together would be entrusted to a younger deputy Premier: 74-year-old Alexander Diomedes, economist, Byzantine scholar, novice in politics. Some Athenians professed to see a portent in the fact that, on the day the new government was formed, a two-headed baby was born in Piraeus...
...first Harvard-Brown game was played in 1893. Harvard won 58-0, and that was a portent of one of football's strongest jinxes...
...Montgomery as overall "chairman" and British Air Marshal Sir James Robb as head of the air forces. In return, French Vice Admiral Robert Jaujard would be head man of the combined Western fleets. French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny would command the land forces. This was a tremendous portent for the success of Western Union; if the Royal British Navy could stomach a French admiral as its theoretical commander, almost anything was possible...
...troublesome questions. Would ending European aid to check internal inflation be worth the political, economic, and moral risks Could controls he restored without black markets, or taxes raised without lost elections; or are voluntary cuts the practical answer Because inflation is no longer a symptom of prosperity but a portent of danger, Americans, in forming their opinion, will have to forget the easy way, examine the alternatives...