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From Moscow's Kursk Station General Charles de Gaulle chugged off for home, one day last week, in a swirling Russian snowstorm. He was sleepy but happy, for in his pocket was a treaty of alliance and mutual assistance between Russia and France. It had been signed at 4:40 that morning, after an all-night session that began with a 20-course Russian banquet attended by U.S. and British diplomats and members of the military missions to Moscow...
Then he caught a train for Moscow. He arrived in a blinding snowstorm. At the flag-decked Kursk Station, a Red Army Guard of Honor stood at attention. A Red Army band played the La Marseillaise and the Soviet Hymn. Down 100 yards of red carpet marched People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Viacheslav Molotov and a reception committee of fur-coated, fur-hatted, felt-booted Russian and Allied dignitaries...
Have you ever cried during a comedy or laughed in the midst of a drama? Have you ever felt cold in a heat wave or warm during a snowstorm? Have you ever walked in your sleep and found no explanation for doing so, since you went to bed on an empty stomach and it couldn't have been the perk chops you ate in the Square last Tuesday...
...Lieut. John A. Pritchard Jr. and Radioman Benjamin A. Bottoms rescued two Army airmen who had crashed on a Greenland icecap. Then they flew into a blinding snowstorm to bring back others. They were never seen again...
First Night Out. Engines pounded. Grizzled old Pilot Joe Lloyd, who has spent nearly half a century on the river, pointed the Del Commune straight ahead. The ice growled, snapped, cracked. Two ducks beat a hasty retreat to the brown Wisconsin shore, Slowly, laboriously, the towboat crunched forward. A snowstorm blew up; night came early; Captain Joe turned on the two big searchlights...