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Then it happened. One night in December 405, the Rhine froze, and a German raiding party crossed. They found only shadow garrisons against them; the Legions had been called back to Italy to resist Alaric. The word spread, and by spring the unopposed German tribes had overrun eastern Gaul and were pouring west to the sea and south to the Pyrenees. Britain was cut off from Rome-and the Dark Ages were approaching on the double. But these matters were hard to sense fully in misty Britain. All that seemed perfectly clear to some of Felix's bolder friends...
...shocked Yard-dwellers out of bed at 7 a.m., and he gave his approval to the serving of bear in House dining halls. For the most part, however, he took to heart the confidential advice of out going. President Lowell "the first duty of Harvard's president is to resist pressure" and steeled himself for the task...
...handful of newsmen who have covered the White House since he first took office, the President gave a series of individual "farewell interviews." Christinas spirit or no, Old Pol Truman could not resist the opportunity to repeat his charge that General Eisenhower had indulged in "demagoguery" during the campaign. He devoted most of the interviews, however, to proud reminiscences of his Administration. "Suppose you had it all to do over again, would you change anything?" asked the New York Times's Tony Leviero. "No," said Harry Truman...
This corrosive individualism expresses itself politically in a multiplicity of little parties, huddles of special interests. It shows itself in the big industrialists and businessmen who resist alike the productive imagination of U.S. capitalism and the legitimate aspirations of labor, and prudently send their capital out of the country. And the resultant despair shows in the 5,000,000 Frenchmen, 25% of the electorate, who voted Communist (a survey by France's FORTUNE-like Réaltiés showed that most were "seeking an energetic and dependable champion who would improve their material lot . . . The U.S.S.R., despite...
Both Duncan and Gandhi were arrested-exactly as they had planned-when they rejoined Duncan's wife Cynthia, waiting in their automobile. Next day, along with 36 other defendants (6 whites, 18 Indians, 12 Africans), they were charged with "inciting Negroes to resist, break or obstruct" apartheid laws. Most white South Africans seemed to disapprove of Duncan's action. Reproving him for "deluding the Negroes," the liberal Johannesburg Star coldly observed that passive resistance, by frightening the whites, "strengthens the hand of reaction and repression...