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Said a Paris seamstress: "The Marshall Plan means one thing to me-tout simplement, a chance to go back to a civilized life. I mean enough bread, a decent house, a decent school for one's children and a chance to feel oneself surrounded by honesty and plenty of smiles...
...Bidault quickly saw that. So did Jean-Jacques Granier, 28, a Paris bank clerk currently on strike. Said he: "If the Russians want to come in, that's fine. If they don't, tant pis. That's their business. Ours is to take this chance-mais tout de suite." Although the Communist press grumbled at the Marshall plan, observers believed that even the majority of French Communist voters welcomed it and saw in it the one hope for a stable, peaceful Europe...
...wife stepped into the basket. As 40 gallant soldiers of the Republic clung fast to its ropes, Boesmans launched into a flowery speech in praise of French sportsmanship. Just then the band struck up the Dutch National Anthem. "Tell the music to shut up," shouted Boesmans. "Lâchez tout!" (let it go) roared the crowd. Promptly the soldiers dropped the ropes and Boesmans soared aloft, while the crowd shouted: "Vive la Hollande...
Besides his enthusiasm for Isabel and sculpture, Lachaise had another: books about the North Pole. Said Poet E. E. Cummings, who was among the first to tout Lachaise: "There is one thing Lachaise would rather do than anything else, and that is to experience the bignesses and whitenesses, and silences of the polar regions . . . to negate the myriad with the single, to annihilate the complicatednesses and prettinesses and trivialities of Southern civilizations with the enormous, the solitary, the fundamental...
...tout's secret that U.S. Delegate Warren Austin, as "personal representative" of President Truman, had formally offered to turn over to U.N. the Army's 2½-sq.-mi. Presidio, perched spectacularly above San Francisco Bay. But Russia's Georgi Saksin promptly demanded that San Francisco be barred from the track...