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...Come, Little Michael!" Outside, beyond the garden hedges, a few other refugees from Rumania waited. When the couple appeared, they called, "Come nearer, little Michael," and "Take us back to Bucharest." When Michael stepped close and waved, his former subjects wept. Cried one: "God bless you Greeks for giving my Michael such a fine wedding...
Later, she darted off to address workers in Naples. "They wept and threw their arms around me because I wasn't selling the Marshall Plan or telling them how to vote," she reported on her return. "They acted as though I were the last American democrat . . . We've become the old country when we ought to be at the peak of our youth and beauty...
...watch. On the dot of 4 p.m., David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of the Jewish state, banged the table with his fist and began to read. As he reached the words proclaiming "the establishment of the Jewish State in Palestine, to be called Israel,"* the audience cheered and wept. In the two hours that remained before sundown, when the Jewish Sabbath would begin, Tel Aviv's jubilant people danced in the streets, paraded with blue-&-white streamers and Star of David flags, prayed in their synagogues, with tears and cheers waved off truckloads of Haganah youths headed...
...bank notes larger than 100 francs, returned no more than 2,000 francs to anyone. The rest was temporarily frozen or funneled into government loans. Some Belgians howled at the deflation, but those who suffered most were those who had made the biggest profits on German accounts. Few Belgians wept for such sufferers. The economic surgery saved Belgium from the inflation which other continental countries experienced...
Hundreds of Hawaiians lined Honolulu's Waikiki Beach one day last week to say goodbye to the famed old liner Mat-sonia. As the ship passed, on her last voyage to the mainland, a few sentimental spectators wept. One of Hawaii's most popular links with the mainland, she was headed for San Francisco and the auction block. In her place this week was a younger (1932) Matson ship, the 18,163-ton Lurline, making her first commercial postwar trip to the Islands...