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...were being woven together into an oratorical tapestry when an aide knocked on the study door, told the President it was nearly train time. Into a big envelop the loose paragraphs remaining on the table were swept. Out of the study and out of the White House without a backward glance marched the President to start for Palo Alto on his first trip home in four years...
...Stalin's maneuvers, his leaps forward [toward Communism] and backward [toward private trade] have ruined everything. . . . As regards the peasants there is no clear policy which is most dangerous of all. One of two things should have been done: either the peasants should have been wiped out as a class or a moderate policy in the village should have been adopted...
Other items on Americana's bill which you will probably like: the Doris Humphrey Dance Group's wave dance, in which 14 girls leap, slide, fall forward and backward, accompanied only by a cymbal and the swish of their bodies against a slick blue floor; the same girls in an or- giastic interpretation of an oldtime Shaker meeting; a marionet show in which Alfred Emanuel Smith, Herbert Hoover and John Davison Rockefeller jig together with a chorus of little oil cans. Tunes: "Wouldja for a Big Red Apple?", "You're Not Pretty But You're Mine...
...making its change, the Times had gone forward and backward at the same time. Its coat of arms was resurrected from the top of the Daily Universal Register (founded 1785), the Times's predecessor. The arms included the fleur-de-lis, implying Britain's claim to the throne of France which was not relinquished until 1801. As if aware that this revival might be a source of irritation to readers across the Channel, the renewed lion looked considerably more fierce, more vigilant...
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