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...truth seems to be even more grievous. What the published record does better than either memoirists or events could do is to unveil the "spirit of Yalta," which showed itself before Yalta and is not dead yet. The mark of this spirit is a stubborn refusal to face political reality. From beginning to end of the Yalta record there is an almost total absence of recognition that justice is the only enduring restraint upon power, the only basis for order. On the American side in the fateful days of conference in the Crimea, there were vague dreams, but an almost...
...last week, Yugoslav officials dedicated a cemetery containing the graves of some 700 Russians and more than 1,300 Yugoslavs. All had died just ten years before, in a battle to liberate Yugoslavia's capital from the Nazis. A string was pulled and a sheet fell away to unveil a large bas-relief showing Red army soldiers and Yugoslav partisans driving at German troops...
Thus did Outboard, Marine & Mfg. Co., the General Motors of the outboard motor industry, unveil its 1955 lines of silent 3-h.p. to 25-h.p. Evinrude motors. With them-plus a similarly silenced line of Johnson outboards-Outboard, Marine's President Joseph G. Rayniak hopes to boost next year's sales 20% over 1954's record $70 million volume. He thinks that by attacking noise he is going after the outboard motor industry's No. 1 enemy...
...team's 68 points in the Saturday victory over B.U., but both are pivot men, and have to watch each other play from the bench. This week in practice Shepard has been trying to work out a system of playing them simultaneously and he may unveil it against Wesleyan...
...cordial acquaintance with countless thousands of her subjects all over the world. She will be required to preside graciously at half a hundred state balls, garden parties, luncheons and banquets, at eleven investitures, 133 receptions and 27 children's displays. She will open six Parliaments, lay seven wreaths, unveil three memorials, plant six trees, dedicate a school in Fiji, a road in Jamaica and a cathedral in New Zealand. If all this does not in itself add up to history, the tact, charm and grace with which Elizabeth and her husband perform their courtesy calls will have an important...