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...named Tomas Montanez was leaning against one of her bulwarks, out of sight of the bridge. Even in the small world of the ship, he was a minor figure; he was the ship's carpenter. But 30 seconds later, Tomas Montanez was a new, superior and infinitely precious being. He had fallen overboard...
...State Department dug into the matter last week, they unearthed a few more facts. Last year, when Herbert Hoover went to Germany to make a food survey for President Truman, Frank Mason went along, as press-relations man. He had dug up precious prose in Berlin before. As an I.N.S. correspondent after World War I, he had found the log of the U-boat that sank the Lusitania. Also in the Hoover party were Louis Lochner, prewar A.P. bureau chief in Berlin, and Hugh Gibson, onetime ambassador to Belgium. Lochner translated the diaries for Mason, and Gibson is an editorial...
...eloquent if frequently disorganized diatribe is a significant indication of how more thoughtful leftists, repelled by Russian tyranny, now question their old power-centered assumptions. Strands of the Western tradition they had once blithely ignored-its respect for individuality and defense of freedom for dissident minorities-now seem terribly precious to ex-fellow travelers like Gollancz...
...what you want to call it. Frequently, like a steam engine, the Indians do not function at peak efficiency, because their one and two-man attacks leave a lot of men standing around and their insistence on taking the puck up themselves rather than passing it up front consumes precious seconds...
...friendship between this country and the Arabic world." The treaty with Iraq confirmed Britain's right to-keep troops in Iraq, train and arm the Iraqi army, maintain airbases. Iraq's Regent Abdul Illah replied to a congratulatory message from Bevin: "I recall with appreciation your precious efforts that have led to this happy result...