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...Arab side of no man's land, the magnificent old stones of the Wailing Wall, worn smooth by centuries of kissing by devout Jews, shone brightly ; in the brilliant sunlight. There were no Jews there, and the three British constables guarding the wall said that none had visited the wall since trouble broke out. When we crossed the Old City to the First Station of the Cross on the Via Dolorosa, crowds of Moslems were coming out from Friday prayers at an Arab holy place, the Mosque of the Dome of the Rock (often miscalled the Mosque of Omar...
What the Moon Saw. Shortly before midnight, calm had returned to the Arch of Triumph. The moon shone down dully on the litter of broken bottles, rocks, clubs and park railings strewn over the road. Little pools of blood and dirt had collected, here & there, in the gutters. Walking home down the Champs Elysées, where nightclubs were open and operating as usual, I heard a familiar voice near me: "Chauds, les Marrons, chauds!" It was Anatole, back in business. The little men of Paris were carrying on. All over France, the little men, who detest and fear...
...Dust. In Monza, Palmiro Togliatti threatened revolution. Speaking while a red setting sun shone through the reddish dust stirred up by a crowd of more than 500,000 workers, the Communist leader attacked the U.S. and the De Gasperi Government...
Moscow, the holy and the bloody, the loved and the dreaded, last week was a historic focus of rejoicing and remembrance. Her crown of spires and belfries shone in freshly gilded splendor, and the cupolas of her innumerable churches sat m the sky like frozen clouds. The cross atop the Tower of Ivan the Great glistened m the sun, and told visitors approaching from all over Russia that they were near their goal. In the streets, the people lanced and blessed their city upon its 800th anniversary. It was as Moscow's son, Alexander Pushkin, had written "Moscow: those...
...platform of Dugald station, a flag stop 14 miles east of Winnipeg, passengers from the Canadian National's crack transcontinental No. 4 stretched their legs. A bright moon shone on stocks of wheat in nearby fields. In eastbound No. 4's cab, Engineer J. R. Gibson was impatient to get going, for he was behind schedule. But he had to wait for a westbound special. It was 10:45 p.m., near the end of a peaceful Labor...