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...York, present Communist Boss William Zebulon Foster (no chess fan) was as jumpy as Browder was calm. He issued a statement that the capitalists' "wild orgies of speculation" about a possible Kremlin strategy shift were all nonsense. Foster would continue to battle "Browderism" in order to "pursue a correct Marxist policy...
...Quick Shift. From Paris had flowed a generous measure of the ideas that nourished Western democracy. Were Parisians hungry enough to forget their heritage of freedom? Jeannette Vermeersch and Maurice Thorez were betting that they were. Frenchmen everywhere, nearly as food-and fuel-conscious as the women of Les Halles, last week heard Communists making down-to-earth campaign speeches with little mention of Marxist ideas. By stressing the black market that fed the rich and starved the rest, Party Boss Thorez hoped he could make enough Frenchmen forget the less immediate but not less important issues involved in this...
...deep faith that grew in the Middle Ages, the flair of the Renaissance for zestful living produced men whose deaths were proud as well as pious. Mounting the scaffold, Sir Thomas More joked: "I pray thee, Mr. Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself...
This week U.S. housewives would begin to feel the pinch. A cut in bread deliveries was the bakers' first step. Until bakers could set their ovens and machines to produce lighter loaves, until they could shift more flour from pastries and other products, there would probably be a bread shortage in many communities. But all these measures were by hindsight. They would add no kernels to the grain the U.S. had promised to deliver to the famine lands. At best, they would do no more than avert a failure to meet U.S. commitments...
...earth's astronomical navel* was about to shift its position. Britain's Royal Observatory was preparing for its first permanent move in 271 years. Left behind in Greenwich (now part of London) would be 1) the original building designed by Sir Christopher Wren, and 2) the "prime meridian of longitude," which passes through the observatory grounds. The "Meridian of Greenwich" could not be moved; every modern map in the world had been drawn with it as a base line...