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...American married to a Frenchman adds: "For years TIME was a precious bond bringing my homeland into clear focus each week. Five years of war make me value such a bond more than ever...
...have never aspired to be famous. If I had, then I could say to myself, "All right, brother, you made your bed, now lie in it." But this thing just happened. . . . I feel sad, because it has given me the big things of life and taken away the precious little things...
...Benevento, the precious, 1,100-year-old Cathedral (three stars) was blown skyhigh, along with its famed 12th-century bronze-sculptured doors...
...forum where all nations, big and small, would have an equal voice. True, a voice was about all the Assembly would have-the power was concentrated in the eleven-member Security Council, dominated by the big fellows. For that very reason, the Assembly's "sovereign equality" was precious to the little fellows...
...being first to turn back its industry to peace. Its vast, humming workshops have multiplied manyfold since 1940, when, in all England, there was but one drop hammer-a prewar, German-made model-capable of forging the life-&-death Spitfire crankshafts. (The man in charge of operating that precious hammer, 49-year-old William Forster, received the British Empire Medal in 1943; but only last week, when the story was told in Parliament, did Britons find out why.) Already, those desperate days seemed far away...