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...Tahmassebi. Nearly two years ago he murdered Ali Razmara, Iran's ablest postwar Premier, and thus started Iran down its unhappy trail. Last week Tahmassebi was a free man, pardoned by Mossadegh's subservient Majlis and captive Shah. The young assassin promptly rushed to the Hazrat Abdolazim shrine, wept joyously and said: "When I killed Razmara, I was sure that his people would kill...
...honor of Pocahontas. British and American flags hung side by side in the chancel last week, and another old Virginian, Lady Astor, helped to inaugurate it as "a symbolic shrine of Anglo-American relations...
While the Brattle players grumbled about their low salaries and fought each other for control of the company, the audience applauded and the visiting actors felt they were performing in a theatrical shrine. Cambridge puffed and boasted about them, and critics raved. But Brattle wanted more...
...enemy files. The result is that Victory at Sea tells a tense and complete story. It shows what the wartime newsreel could only guess at: the beaming old ladies hugging Nazi submarine crews as the U-Boat men parade through Berlin; the Japanese pilot bowing to a Shinto Shrine as his carrier heels around into the wind northwest of Pearl Harbor; the American sailors laid out on their stretchers amid the trim officers' cars in that Harbor's parking...
...huge, brooding portrait of the late Kurt Schumacher looked down last week from the speaker's stand on the convention of West Germany's Social Democratic Party at Dortmund. Not far from the assembly room the SPD had rigged up a small shrine to the dead leader. The implacable spirit of Schumacher still dominated the country's second largest party. In the keynote address, Schumacher's chief deputy, Erich Ollenhauer, repeated Schumacher's old neins: the Socialists still stood against a peace treaty with the Western powers, against the Schunian Plan, against anything that took...