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...outwardly express, and the new found autonomy which they love, their leaders maintain the realistic stand that given Poland's geographical position, they cannot break with Russia. They feel, Brzezinski says, that a complete break would lead to one of two possibilities. One, the Russians would fight to regain complete power, as they did in Hungary, with the West offering no aid. Or two, if the break were successful, and Poland became a member of the Western block, it would then have no support against the danger of Germany swallowing it up again...
...because of this fear of German aggression--the fear that the Germans will seek to regain the land which was ceded to Poland after World War II as a reparation for Russian gains in eastern Poland--that the Poles feel they have at the moment a greater common interest with the Soviet bloc than with the Western powers. The West has repeatedly backed Germany's claim to the disputed territory...
...three afternoon dailies doubled their price to 10? last spring, they have lost 301,000 in sales-almost as much as the daily circulation of the morning Herald Tribune. In a city where death in the afternoon is a classic newspaper fate, the three have been scrambling to regain circulatory lifeblood. even if it means draining the other fellow's veins. This week Hearst's Journal-American (circ. 585.121) launched its boldest raid on rival circulation. At the cost of "close to $1,000,000" a year for more newsprint and personnel, the paper began running complete daily...
...severe, body-wide allergic reaction or even death. Every summer such severe sting reactions are a major problem to doctors; treatment consists in giving antihistamines and adrenalin or a hormone of the cortisone family. But researchers are busy on ways to prevent such cases by helping sensitized victims regain the normal degree of immunity...
...shot him down was a Communist. Since that would indicate an unpardonable and unexplainable lapse in the government's security measures, the announcement seemed rather to be a hyperbolic way of expressing the fear that Arbenz (now plotting in Uruguay) and his exiled henchmen might try to regain power in the confusion. It seemed more likely that the assassin was a fanatic from the same mold as the assassin who last September killed Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio Somoza. But Castillo's friends moved quickly to head off any Red comeback. His wife, outwardly calm, ran straight from...