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...search of the sweetest possible name for its secret police, the Kremlin has given that dread body its fourth title since December 1917. Once the CHEKA (Extraordinary Commission), then GPU (State Political Management), 1922-34, then NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), 1934-46, it is now MGB (Ministry of State Security). Said the proverb-loving Russians on hearing the news: Khren ne slashche redki ("Horseradish is not sweeter than radish...
...town, but the price was too high and the palace remained private property until 1931, when Antwerp got royal permission to expropriate it. Since then, Antwerp's crack architects had thumbed 17th Century documents to rediscover the original plans, masons cut through walls in search of the original foundations, and 23 stonecarvers-using Renaissance techniques-worked seven years to restore the first friezes and façades. The war was no interruption: they worked right through the occupation, and when Hitler's rocket bombs were blanketing the port they used bricks from blasted buildings to make the restored...
...Search for Truth. R.D.S. has proved to the average man that religious plays need not be boring. It got the chance during the war, when Browne directed a band of professionals called the Pilgrim Players. Community groups got interested in their morale-builders-Murder in the Cathedral, Geoffrey Whiteworth's Father Noah, Ernest Rhys's The Deluge-decided to do something themselves. Sheffield led the way. In 1943 its interdenominational Association of Christian Communities hired a professional actress as dramatic adviser, has since organized plays with groups varying from mothers' unions to tough boys' clubs...
...search narrowed down to a member of the Ladies' Aid Society who had served food at the reception. Barone found that a year before she had also served at a church supper where three people had contracted typhoid. Her granddaughter had the disease after visiting her. A boarder came down with it in 1936. She was then suspected, but no infection could be found. This time tests were positive...
Many middle-class housewives had turned against Labor. Bread-rationing riots in Ulster last week were extreme symptoms of the dissatisfaction. Men were generally more patient, but they railed against the shortage of beer. Thirsty Britons organized and sent bicycle scouts into the countryside in search of still wet pubs; whenever one was found, word went back by carrier pigeons to friends who sped to the scene...