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Names on a Rock. Trieste was the other big unsettled issue of the Italian treaty. From Trieste came a story: when the Yugoslav Partisans seized the city they wrote "Tito" across the word "Duce," lettered on a rock overlooking Trieste harbor. After the Yugoslavs withdrew, someone had rubbed out the "Tito," failed to rub out the "Duce...
...smallest of Britain's Crown colonies, Gibraltar (area, 2 sq. mi.; pop. 19,278) took a firm stand against the liquidation of the British Empire. At the foot of the Rock, a mass meeting voted last week to send three delegates on a mission to London. Their mandate: to have "Gib" incorporated in metropolitan Britain, 1,200 miles away...
...found in the Val D'Or area, in the heart of Quebec's wild northwestern bush country, as early as 1909, but the town of Val D'Or itself was not really born until 1933, when a peripatetic barber set up a stool on a flat rock and started to work on hairy prospectors. In 1934, the year the Selfs arrived, the town's official population was five...
...Junker relatives, and on their estate he found the Spartan antidote to Weimar decadence. Prussian history books taught him that the famed Prussian tradition was founded on the rock of religious faith, that it demanded austerity, unflinching loyalty and toil. Prussianism in action was "the militant church," and those who sought to crush it attacked "the fundamental values and virtues of every monastic order in the world." The Arrogant Americans. In the black post-War I years, Hauser learned to hate both the ineffectual democracy of the Weimar Republic and the luxury-ridden democracy of the U.S. Like many...
Stocks of clothing are very low, will probably be completely sold out by the time better quality goods make their long-awaited appearance. Furniture departments had only a minimum stock of rock-hard springless chairs, couches and beds. One Detroit store ruthlessly cleaned out its entire line of cardboard toys, burned them as trash...