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In Lisbon, the Salazar government spluttered denunciations of the "wicked act committed by this gang of pirates," and likened it to "the barbarian practices that made the Caribbean Sea an area of dishonor, which took centuries to clean up." Panic-stricken that a similar fate might be in store for...
When Chancellor Konrad Adenauer picked Bonn as temporary headquarters for the new federal republic of West Germany, it was supposed to serve only until Germany was reunified and Berlin restored as the rightful capital. In fact, its provisional character became a symbol of West Germans' refusal to acquiesce in...
On the other hand, the convention could give back to the Legislature its rightful authority over taxation that the constitution now restricts very tightly. Like the counties and the Governor's Council, archaic limitations on taxation resemble, in the words of a commission several years ago, "a building with a...
In a ceremony more feather-filled than a pillow fight, Eleanor Roosevelt, 76, became an honorary Indian six times over in Beverly Hills, Calif. Presented with the traditional caparisons of his tribe by Chief Wah-Nee-Ota of the Creeks, Mrs. Roosevelt was also duly adopted as a member of...
When an Asian member of the audience said he thought Lumumba was not "pro-Communist," and the rightful ruler of the Congo, Harriman became adamant. "You have no right to state such opinions as fact." he answered.