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The Service case had been around Washington a long time before Acheson got to it. One spring day in 1945, Service, one of the band of Foreign Service "China hands" who urged the U.S. during World War II to dump the Chinese Nationalists and plump for Communist Mao Tse-tung...
White Water. In Brisbane, Australia, the Postmaster General's Office hastily announced that it was just using up wartime envelopes as an economy move, after citizens indignantly asked how come their government telephone bills were arriving in envelopes stamped, "A Still Tongue Makes a Good Citizen."
Tickets must be obtained in advance by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to "Open Night," Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 60 Garden St., Cambridge. A maximum of three tickets will be allowed to each request, but there will be no charge for the tickets, it was explained.
Mostly, the Poles stamped for the same old warhorses the Clevelanders had played elsewhere-Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Strauss's Don Juan, excerpts from a Ravel Daphnis and Chloö suite. There was little stamping-only applause-for newer works (by Wallingford Riegger, Samuel Barber, Paul Creston, Bela...
The liberators freed the press and the politicians. La Prensa was restored to its owners, reappeared as a free paper. The new government unfettered the courts, named high-caliber judges, staged free union elections, stamped out most corruption. Most important, without the incessant dawdling of most Latin American military governments...