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Like many another Mrs. Smith, tall, brunette Lillian Smith* of Arlington, Va., is the budget director of her family. A few weeks ago, she went to her husband with a sheaf of bills and a realization that had her close to tears: the Smith family could not make ends meet much longer. There was the big insurance premium, and the mortgage payment. Everything was so high, and now that the four children were older, expenses would be higher than ever...
Waiting at the dockside to greet her, and to make political capital, was a Communist delegation led by Soviet Ambassador Alexandr Bogomolov. Beside the beaming, suntanned envoy was Madame Bogomolov, carrying a big armload of flowers. While cameras clicked, she exchanged her bouquet for a sheaf of wheat. Briskly the Voroshilov's crew opened the hatches; there, as the lyrical Agence France Presse reported: "Russian wheat glittered under the sun of France." Later, bands played the French and Russian anthems and Ambassador Bogomolov made a speech in praise of Franco-Russian amity. Then 100 token sacks of Russian amity...
Atop Winnipeg's limestone Legislative Building stands a statue of a naked boy with a sheaf of wheat under one arm. Manitobans dub him the "Spirit of Enterprise' see something symbolic in the fact that he faces north. Last week every Manitoban looked northward...
...musical about Cohan, in 1939, that put C.U. on the map. Playwright Walter Kerr, then & now a member of C.U.'s drama department, got the idea when he found a sheaf of Cohan songs in an old trunk. Hollywood had had the idea before him, but in spite of waving $100,000 checks at Cohan, had got nowhere. Cohan let C.U. dramatize his life for nothing...
...largely a matter of emphasis. Both lawyers pointed to the sheaf of treaties which nations had signed and sealed through the years, in the anxious hope of banning war. But Sir Hartley interpreted the treaties as laws that applied to individuals, even though everyone knew that they were not meant to be so applied...