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...optimistic to hope that during this period negotiations [with Russia] will have [ended] in disarmament." It was almost as if the Premier were inviting Frenchmen to use the London agreement as they had for four years used EDC, to delay Germany's sovereignty and rearmament while pretending to inch towards it. In effect, he was asking the Assembly to approve German rearmament in theory, while suggestting sotto voce that the new German army might never become a reality...
Last year, brimming with cheerful enthusiasm, Palmer thought up a project that he hoped would bring laughter and joy to such people. He called it Discojos Mexicanos, from discos (records) and ojos (eyes). Through it, he wanted to record songs and stories on twelve-inch long-playing records that would be distributed free to Mexico's sightless...
Even larger than the six-foot six inch drum (eight feet high on its special carriage) is the band's gigantic sousaphone, one of the largest in existence. No one is sure just when it was purchased, but it seems clear that some enterprising bandsman picked it up for a mere $100 when it was unintentionally put on an inventory sale. Its mate, made by an English locomotive factory for John Phillip Sousa, is now in a New York music store, definitely not for sale at any price...
...wartime bestseller, God Is My Co-Pilot, how he bagged Japanese planes now has spun an ingratiating yarn about how he bagged African big game. After dispatching the usual lion, leopard and elephant, Scott tracked Samburu, an almost legendary six-ton, ancient bull elephant that glides on noiseless, 28-inch footpads. Once, floundering out of a river, Hunter Scott suddenly came upon the huge-tusked giant and shouldered his rifle, only to find the sights waterclogged. By sliding back into the river, he sought to escape the shrieking charge. The monster, possibly distracted by Scott's Borana tracker, turned...
...Mind. In Philadelphia, after Harry Stone, 44. walked into the Einstein Medical Center and complained that he had suffered severe headaches for several years, surgeons began removing a 32-inch knife blade that had been embedded in his skull for 28 years...