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...told it would take weeks of reading the stars to prepare. With a huge floral wreath, the two went to India's most important memorial, Raj Ghat, where Mahatma Gandhi was cremated. Removing their shoes, they stood at the spot for a silent moment (long enough to reflect, if they remembered at all, that the latest edition of the Big Soviet Encyclopedia calls the saint of India a reactionary who "pretended in a demagogic way" to lead the Indian independence movement...
...20th Massachusetts Volunteers during the Civil War; General Jonathan Wainwright of Corregidor. On a brooding hillock General John J. Pershing lies in lonely aloofness. Another small knoll is occupied by the grave of Lieut. General Arthur MacArthur; near by, a plot is reserved for his son. Humbler graves reflect the grimness of war and the greatness of American history: "James Parks, born a slave," or, simply, "Unknown...
...Korean war, just as the economy has continued to grow through all the troubles. Stock Exchange President Funston thinks that the more small investors who buy sto'ck not for speculation, but for the long pull, the stronger the market will beand the better it will reflect the state of the nation Says he: "Never has a business had a better opportunity to do something good for the country and at the same time for itself. It's a natural...
Nonetheless, Kirkland's words were known to reflect the views of 68-year-old Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, and, next to Queen Elizabeth herself, the highest official in the Anglican hierarchy. Like the Queen, the Archbishop avoided speaking his mind in public. But he is a close, old friend of the young Princess, and he was her greatest comforter at the time of her father's death...
...estimate of "that old village atheist", Sinclair Lewis, erred only in regard to height. Whereas some of these new "churches" [Sept. 19] reflect a Middle Dow-Jones influence, or what's new in well-designed factories, others resemble surrealistic storm cellars...