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Long Henry was a 375-ft.-talI marine crane, the towering pride of Kiel Harbor, when the victorious British appropriated him in 1945. For five years, Long Henry played his robust, uncomplaining part in cleaning up bomb-battered Kiel. This year, the British sold him to the French for 1,500,000 marks...
...have been brought up on free enterprise. We have been taught that it is free enterprise that keeps this country vigorous and robust and brings us all the good things of life at the lowest of all possible costs...
Simon is a master at mugging, but his untimely death removes him from the scene less than halfway through. The main burden then falls on the young and robust shoulders of Henri Vidal. That is where it stays, however, for Vidal's dramatic talents are about limited to exhibiting his superb physique and cat-like agility...
...Iran's new Premier Mossadeq, who swoons whenever he gets really worked up during a political speech (TIME, May 21). Last week, Israel's U.N. Delegate Abba S. Eban, a good deal younger (36) than Iran's 70-year-old Premier and far more robust, followed the fashion: at the end of an hour-long speech before the Security Council, Eban blanched, staggered out of the Council chamber and keeled over in the corridor...
...Line. Togliatti, like the party itself, looked older, paler and far less robust than three years before. "Never mind a few misguided defections," he counseled. "Comrades, we have immense potential allies: the whole Italian proletariat and the population of the Italian South. We will find allies even among the lower echelons of the bourgeoisie, now faced with economic annihilation...