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...Pistol-One Ammunition. The strangest fugitives were the Ukrainians. For international purposes, such as gatherings of the U.N., the Soviet Union treats the Ukrainian republic ts an independent state. But some Ukrainians have been trying to throw off the Soviet yoke since 1918. A group of Ukrainian partisans under a 25-year-old leader named Lakhidnya had fought their way to the U.S. zone last summer. Since then, they have been filtering through in small detachments. They cannot be classed as D.P.s. So the somewhat baffled U.S. military authorities have interned them in a barracks in Bavaria...
Wellesley's dark paths, hosts to many goodwill missions, were invaded last night by one of the strangest expeditions that ever left the Square. Equipped with washboards, a piano, and a set of drums, Peter Hewitt '48 and his "Pair of Dirty Stockings" were trying to prove to the Wellesley Institute of Foreign Students that early American jazz--New Orleans style at least--had never died...
Such swift action was something new in U.N. Newest and strangest was the line-up on the vote. The U.S. and Russia voted "yes" together. Britain, France and Belgium abstained...
...16th Century, "are so foolish by nature that a juggler, a pardon-peddler, a mule with bells . . . will gather a bigger crowd than a good evangelic preacher ever could." Four centuries later, between 1920 and 1935, Parisian jugglers and pardon-peddlers were gathering one of the biggest, strangest crowds in French history-a throng of U.S. expatriates, fleeing the New World of Harding, Coolidge, and their own disconsolate selves. Says Samuel Putnam, who went to Paris in 1926 to translate the works of Rabelais, and stayed seven years, writing sometimes as art correspondent for New York newspapers: ". . . It was perhaps...
Togliatti's address had decided the issue, and all the deputies knew it. But the debate dragged on in desultory fashion till 2 a.m., when the Assembly's strangest alliance won by a vote...