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...Last Wail. Let the Democrats nominate Ike as a nonpartisan, cried Pepper. Let Ike write his own platform, pick his own running mate. Let him be a "national" President, free to choose anyone, Democrat or Republican, for his administration. In short, let Ike go before the country as a Man-on-Horseback-who would, incidentally, carry the rachitic Democratic Party to safety...
...exciting novel about "shamed and sunken France." World Without Visa is a novel on the grand scale, packed with enough action to fill a dozen less ambitious books, bursting with dramatic and melodramatic climaxes, written and overwritten from a gnawing sense of social urgency - a desperate, ear-splitting wail of grief at what human life has become in the 20th Century. Niggling critics will find many faults in it, and the faults are there; but it is nonetheless a book that communicates, as no other has yet - far better than Arch of Triumph, for example - the feeling of what...
...International Children's Emergency Fund was doing what it could to help Pessel herself, but there were millions like her for whom it could do nothing. Broadcast through many of the world's radio stations, a recorded wail from little Pessel's scarred lungs was sounding last week, an anguished plea for help to these others...
...Wail Amid the Woodwinds. The Austrian treaty draft was set aside. Marshall turned to Germany. Molotov repeated (for German consumption) his demand for a strong central German government. One weary U.S. delegate reported that he could not even go to the opera without hearing a voice wailing amid the woodwinds: "The Soviet Union demands a liberal, democratic, peace-loving central government for all Germany...
...ever-present bugaboo of registration and big game football standing endless hours in lines--has been attacked this year, in an effort both to shorten the wail and give more efficient service...