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...Millennium. U.N. distributed anniversary material to radio stations in 54 lands and in 21 languages. One disappointment : nobody at Lake Success could be found to put the program into Pushtu for the Afghan man-in-the-street...
Generalissimo Chiang: "I do not suggest that the millennium is in sight...
Stone Palimpsest. Much of the Abbey of Monte Cassino, at the time the bombers destroyed it, dated only from the 17th Century; for it had suffered already, through more than a millennium, under the Lombards and the Saracens, and the Napoleonic French, and by earthquake as well. But some remained from the 11th Century; and a little from the 6th. Virtually all of the stone palimpsest was rendered forever illegible by the bombers. But the irreplaceable possessions of the library, its 1,200 MSS. and 40,000 records, were removed by the Hermann Göring Division. Monte Cassino...
Step by step, the Army was approaching the push-button millennium when giant military rockets will travel thousands of miles cargoed with wholesale death. Recently, at White Sands, N.M., a German V-2 roared up 104 miles, 20.5 miles higher than the previous record. In its nose it carried an armored capsule packed with instruments for observing pressures, temperatures and cosmic rays...
Both Zionists and Arabs protested. The Zionists claimed that their land area was not enough, that it would be "ghettoization." The Arabs could see no reason for "federation" of an area which has been Arab for the last millennium. Britain invited Arabs and Jews to discuss the plan at a London conference...