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Ground was broken in the spring of 1950; target date was 1955. Every four miles along the route, a camp sprang up to house 60,000 prisoners, redeeming themselves through "socialist labor," i.e., as slaves...
...Senate majority leader in a Republican Administration, the public began to see a new Taft. The nation which had overturned the Fair Deal to elect Dwight Eisenhower was ready to listen, at least with half an ear. There sprang up the hope that Taft and Eisenhower between them would evolve a foreign policy and a policy of national defense, a domestic policy and, indeed, a reconstructed and truly American idealism to which the nation could rally. This hope began to turn Taft into a popular figure. Whatever suffering they brought to him as a man, Taft's last...
Last week, as the Egyptian owners gave renewed signs of canceling her Suez lease, Britain sprang a surprise: a 20-year rental agreement for a new war store just across Egypt's western border. London agreed to pay Libya, the Middle East's newest and poorest kingdom (created by the U.N. out of Mussolini's African empire), a dole of $2,800,000 annually for at least five years for economic development, plus another $7,700,000 annually to balance her budget, in return for the right to base British troops and planes in Libya...
...Paris. On their first morning back in England, Philip donned his clerical disguise. When Penelope raised wondering eyebrows, he confessed: "I can no longer conceal from you that I am a curate ... I have basely deceived you . . . My only excuse is the greatness of my love." At which Penelope sprang from her bed, screaming, "I shall never forgive you! ... I will make you rue the day that you treated a poor girl in this infamous manner. I will make you, and as many as possible of your clerical accomplices, as much of a laughing stock as you have made...
...Johannesburg a tremor ran through the earth. It shook tall office buildings, cracked walls, swung chandeliers, made restaurant waiters spill the soup. Women screamed, and tourists sprang to the.'r feet asking: "Is it an earthquake...