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...then after the fa (that's really the incredible moment when one can say Charlie is great . . .), Charlie returns to the sol. Do you get it? No, you don't get it. A moment and you will see: sol, mi, fa, sol. . . there it is, in the groove, the true groove. Ah! that second...
...shortest railroads in the U.S. is the little Ohio & Morenci, which hauls freight 20.2 mi. from Berkey, Ohio to Morenci, Mich. About six months ago, the Ohio & Morenci petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to go out of business: there just wasn't enough traffic to make it worthwhile...
This time Lord Mildmay looked for better luck. Before he climbed up on Cromwell at Aintree last week, he said, "I am full of confidence." But confidence soon left the Mildmay rooters in the crowd of 300,000 who jammed the 4½-mi. steeplechase course. As the field of 43 thundered over the first hazardous jumps, the long-legged Lord let three outsiders steal a long lead on the favorite. He seemed to be concentrating on getting safely, rather than quickly, over the jumps. It was hard to cavil at this: 32 of the 43 horses failed to finish...
...Marino is the world's oldest (1,648 years), smallest (38 sq. mi.) and least populous (12,000) republic. For the past four years it has also been the only Communist-dominated state west of the Iron Curtain. Surrounded by Italy, San Marino's fortress, La Rocca, overlooking the Adriatic, towers above the grey stone face of Mount Titano (145 miles north of Rome). By modern standards, La Rocca's massive, crumbling grey walls are not much of a bastion, but last week San Marino's Communists held the fort...
Acheson coolly responded with the frankest description so far pinned on the U.S.'s wavering, feckless China policy: "Wait until the dust settles." That Mi-cawberism, which Dean Acheson had inherited when he took office, was not enough for Walter Judd. He blamed the U.S. for consistently undermining Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government. Acheson countered that the Chiang government was corrupt, that U.S. military supplies inevitably fell to the Communists without a real fight. Then Judd assailed the State Department's long effort to sell China a coalition government. Said Judd: "The Chinese knew then...