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...Namur. A year and a half later the new King Leopold was motoring with Queen Astrid near Lucerne, he at the wheel and she with a map in her lap. When his wife asked a question, the monarch leaned over and the car swerved. It plunged down a grassy slope, hit two trees and fell into the lake. The Queen fractured her skull, died 20 minutes later. The King hurtled through the car's windshield. To the first policeman who came by asking his identity, he answered in a dazed voice: "Rethy, Mr. & Mrs. Rethy" (the name often used...
...quality of noonday sunlight on an empty plain. Other refreshing and honest touches: the homely treatment of four frontier chippies (including Gloria Grahame); the persuasively intimate feel of the western countryside; the sensitive cinematic handling of sound and movement in a slow, hide-and-seek gunfight on a mountain slope...
...some respects, the justices were nine broiling brook's in search of a new main stream. Running down one side of the hill were Frankfurter, Jackson, Burton and Vinson. Running down the other side, a more precipitous slope, were Black, Douglas, Murphy and Rutledge. Reed ran back & forth...
...Fascism, Zionism and anti-Sovietism, that was the ideological sink" which had spawned the treachery. For Communists who were still safe at home, Nep offered a little fatherly advice: "The important thing (to remember) is that treason against the party, deviation from the Marxist-Leninist line, is a steep slope from which plunging into the imperialist abyss is easy...
...Sofia, another communist ex-hero was sliding down the slope. After bumping down in April from Vice Premier of Bulgaria to head of the National Library, Traicho Kostov has now been expelled from the party and from Parliament...