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...over Europe last week, Russians were pushing this line. They had begun late last year when a Foreign Ministry official in Moscow called in West German Ambassador Hans Kroll and handed him a sheaf of papers. "You can do what you want with this," remarked the Russian with a shrug. It was a long and rambling document without address or signature, but it was obviously important. For one thing, it referred to the "gifted" German people and used other flattering words that contrasted with the insults of the past. Pointedly ignoring Moscow's East German satellite, the memorandum declared...
Tidy Package. Wall Street, which ordinarily views grandiose announcements from real estate promoters with a wait-and-see shrug, sent Webb Corp. stock up to $15 (from $10 a few months ago). A "package" of Webb stock, warrants and debentures, which was marketed by Wall Street's Lehman Bros, at $77.75 when the company went public 13 months ago, is now worth...
...early lead and hung on to win 12-7. In New Orleans' all-white Sugar Bowl, top-ranked Alabama relied on a stingy defense to eke out a 10-3 victory over Arkansas. In Pasadena's Rose Bowl, a crowd of 98,000 watched Minnesota shrug off an early U.C.L.A. field goal, romp to an easy 21-3 victory. And in Miami's rain-drenched Orange Bowl, Louisiana State's hard-rushing linemen blocked two Colorado punts, routed the outmanned Westerners 25-7. Perhaps the biggest winner of all was L.S.U. Coach Paul Dietze, who flew...
...most successful painters in Paris; no one listing the four or five top names in the French art world in 1920 would have dared to omit his. But by the end of World War II, Derain's name usually came up only to be dismissed with a shrug. One of the original "wild beasts." he has been difficult to appraise; but at its best, his work has also been almost impossible not to like...
...sample ranged from practical advice on how to influence Congressmen by talking "in a spirit of moderation," to a gentle shrug of discouragement because "the same things happen" despite changes in Administrations and despite efforts of disarmament groups...