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...Vienna one day last week a Telex machine, ominously silent for almost a week, suddenly sprang to life. Slowly and with much stuttering an unknown keyboard operator in Budapest hammered out the following message...
...genial, rotund man of 57, Sachar has been able to attract both brains and money to his campus. Though the university had no alumni until 1952, groups of "foster alumni" sprang up in dozens of cities across the U.S., gave to the new university as generously as if it had been their own alma mater. Gradually the faculty grew to 160, the student body to 1,070, the annual budget to nearly $3,000,000. Around the great castle ultramodern buildings arose, including three separate chapels for Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants...
When Israel sprang into existence in 1948, some of its U.N. sponsors wondered whether it would find its peaceful place in the Middle East or develop into a "nasty little Sparta." Its 650,000 people, with the help of a sympathetic world, had elbowed their way to a place in a hostile part of the world. They performed prodigies of desert pioneering. But they never succeeded in winning the tolerance or the trade of their neighbors...
...rang to the classic shouts of "Freedom of Speech!" "Freedom of Religion!" The answer, audible from the Baltic to the South China Sea, was the machine-gun fire of Communist T-54 tanks. Then, out of a deep night along the Israel-Egypt border, there sprang forth two spearheads of a regular Israeli army advance, lunging 75 miles into Egyptian territory in the general direction of the Suez Canal. Unknown was whether Israel was launching an unusually deep retaliatory raid, or whether this was the beginning of the painful tidings that the President and Secretary of State had long feared...
...reality of the great Dumas' life was so fantastic that Dumas' friends and enemies caught its contagion and piled reams of further fantasy upon it. Dumas' chest really was covered with medals (of what orders, he never cared), so up sprang the legend that if Dumas were spun round, further rows were revealed dangling from his back. He wrote with such rapidity that people refused to believe that he wrote at all-Dumas, they said, was just the pen name of a five-man syndicate. Dumas (who loved to out-legend his own legends) denied this...