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...Force, who has joined a Carmelite convent in Compiègne on the eve of the Revolution. Weak and fearful at first, she gradually gains spiritual strength. In a strange contrast, it is the doughty Mother Superior who dies in fear, while the once cowardly Blanche dies a glorious martyr's death; she twice spurns a chance to escape and, with other Carmelites, goes serenely to the guillotine...
...aftermath of the "glorious" invasion, Israel found itself ingloriously alone. It could boast of but one steadfast friend these days: France. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion warned of "difficult political struggles" ahead, not so much with "our enemies" as with "peoples who do not hate Israel." Other Israelis noted glumly that some $30 million in U.S. grants-in-aid and a $75 million U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, both approved long before Israel's invasion of Egypt, had not been released since...
...Virginia. Plagued by a broken hip, aging (82) Matt Neely was wheeled in, sat uncomfortably fingering a water cup, waiting for the roll call. But not even Neely's arrival in a wheelchair, nor the appearance of Adlai Stevenson in the gallery, could shift the glow of a glorious moment from Frank Lausche, as he sat poised and quiet in an end seat, an aisle's breadth away from Republicanism...
...recent months a "strongman," Lt. Col. Abdel Saraj, has seized an unofficial but practical hold on Syrian affairs. Saraj, who is reputed to be strongly pro-Communist, is above all an Arab nationalist, and considers Nassar as the "Arab Attaturk" who will lead the Arab world to a glorious unification. As a result of this willingness to follow Nassar, Syria, in October of this year, joined with Egypt and Jordan in putting its army under joint Egyptian control in case...
...Jargon. "I am glad to be in the glorious capital of the great Soviet Union," said Gomulka. "Nothing is more important than our fraternal and friendly relations." Then, looking past the microphones, he let his thin smile fade and spoke with deadly earnestness: "The most lasting foundation for such relations are the Leninist principles of equality of rights of small and great nations...