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Stoking Napoleon's hatred was the fact that flamboyant, liberty-loving Mme. de Staël had been one of the first to suspect his despotic ambitions. As France's First Consul, Napoleon had guessed, quite rightly, that Mme. de Staël "wanted to put him on...
Her stories are far more effective, and they vibrate with the fragile melancholy of tinkling temple bells. A Hindu youth claims his veiled bride, and in the first flush of passion feels a hot tear on his hand as the girl trembles beside him, fearful and liquid-eyed as a...
The camera caught the stare of a bored little girl caught up in a group of gesticulating farmers, flickered over the strained, sweat-lined faces of steelworkers stoking their furnaces, and watched while a painfully earnest schoolgirl in a Warsaw classroom rattled off a quaintly colorful description of the U.S...
Ike was quick to lay out reassurances for some of the doubts that had worried congressional leaders in earlier conferences at the White House. Even if Congress grants him stand-by power to use force, he will maintain "hour-by-hour contact" with Congress in the event of crisis and...
RAIL INCOME SLUMP is stoking up demand for another freight rate hike. Despite rise in carloadings in 1956, higher costs trimmed net income of nation's Class 1 rails to $875 million, off $52 million from 1955. Eastern railways may ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for 15% rate boost...