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...winter season unparalleled in recent years for artistic and financial success, the local thespians--HDC wing--have taken one more step into what must have looked like the blue heaven of prosperity. If the opening performance of their prosperity vehicle is any criterion, however, they are about to rub their eyes and find the stardust quite, quite gone...
...return concessions were the rub. People all over the world now believe that governments are responsible for a lot of things-even down to the corners of a beer-bottle label-that used to be none of a government's business. The program for "freer" world trade ran smack into the program for "secure" economic systems...
Furthermore, Bevin said: "Nothing I agree to politically for Germany can go into effect until a workable settlement has been reached economically." That was the rub. Marshall offered a slight concession to the Russians' demand for reparations from German current production; he declared that the U.S. would "study" the demand on condition: 1) that the Soviets would agree to leave in Germany certain factories originally slated to be removed to Russia and take their reparations only from these factories; 2) that current production reparations must not increase occupation costs, or retard German self-support. Under these terms, Russia, which...
Cars, coats, watches, and sundry other items lost, found or for sale form the bulk of the classified advertisements, but every now and then some captivating little item appears which makes readers stop and rub their eyes...
...member of the Berlin Magistral recently stopping in for a Heissgetränk (hot brew) at an ancient, smoke-blackened wine cellar saw a sight that made him rub his eyes. Around a table sat a group of middle-aged men, some bemonocled, some with pince-nez, all with wide silk bands of green, white and gold across their chests. Before them stood an elaborate, gold-fringed banner with the same colors, and beside it lay a wooden mallet covered with faded signatures. Meeting here amid Berlin's ruins was a chapter of Saxo-Borussia, one of the most...