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...hours later, the Danube treaty, which gives the Soviet Union control of the Danube as far upstream as Ulm, was signed by the delegates with two Ever-sharp fountain pens. The Western nations refused to sign. Ana Pauker, in high spirits, wore her twelfth new suit in 20 days (smoke-grey with white piping, New Look length). Her immediate plans: "A holiday trip on the Danube-our Danube...
...second year of World War I, a fleet of British warships anchored off the mouth of the Rufiji River in German East Africa and proceeded to bombard an unseen target. When the shelling was over, the 3,400-ton cruiser Königsberg, camouflaged and in hiding 17 miles upstream, was an unrecognizable mass of twisted steel. She was to Germany in World War I what the Bismarck was in World War II: a ghostly, arrogant lone raider that had sunk British warships, transports and merchant vessels and gotten cleanly away after each kill. On the bridge of the British...
...Varsity's time was several seconds behind their Princeton stint, but the course--the same that will be rowed tomorrow--was upstream over the swiftly-running Charles, with a slight following wind roughing up the water...
...were flocking to eat their lunches in sun-warmed parks, and tulip shoots stood two inches up from the rich, black loam of the Tuileries gardens. Along the Seine the first clochards (hoboes) of the season had taken their places to watch the tugboats pull rows of laden barges upstream and to wonder again why anybody should be fool enough to work in such weather...
Atabrine & DDT. Soon UNESCO's scientists will go to Belém, at the Amazon's broad mouth, to start their institute work. As the program gets under way, they will move upstream, analyzing the soil, trying to find out what man may do with it and himself in the heat and rain. Here & there they will come upon other pith-helmeted, mosquito-booted men laden with atabrine, DDT bombs, boxed instruments, and closely guarded notes. These are the geologists of the major oil companies looking for petroleum lands. Ever since Peru's Ganso Azul (Blue Goose...