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...World War II, thus give Germany, Japan and Austria a chance to set up free governments, "untouched by tyranny." "Nor can we accept a settlement which would make [them] satellites of the Soviet Union. The experience in Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria has been [a] . . . shocking betrayal of the solemn pledges by the wartime allies...
Even before publication, Dr. Velikovsky's book has attracted wide comment and admiration. Harper's Magazine gave it a solemn preview entitled "The Day the Sun Stood Still." Collier's ran a he-man's version called "The Heavens' Burst." In the latest Reader's Digest, Fulton Oursler hailed Velikovsky as the starter of a back-to-the-Bible movement. Connoisseurs of pressagentry will credit Macmillan Co. with skilled use of an up-to-date technique: getting widest publicity for a doubtful article before critics have been allowed...
...also loves practical jokes. For years, Eliot patronized a small store which specialized in exploding cigars, squirting buttonholes and soapy chocolates. Once, on the Fourth of July, at a solemn board meeting of Faber & Faber, he set off a bucketful of firecrackers between the chairman's legs...
...turned, carefully mounted the iey stops, and opened the door. After hanging up his coat, he walked towards the dimly lit living-room and the crowd of dancing figures. As he edged into the room the solemn, spaniel eyes of a plump girl, who was leaning against the wall, followed him. When Vag noticed her, she turned nonchalantly and began talking to another girl. A girl was coming toward him,; she was pretty and Vag decided to ask her to dance. He was about to do so when she asked him sweetly and energetically if he would like to meet...
Around the chamber, Italy's legislators sat tense and silent as the solemn Premier asked formal approval of his new, slightly reshuffled cabinet. Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti beat a nervous finger tattoo on his desktop. The party's L'Unita that morning had threatened: "The opposition will know how to ram De Gasperi's lies and provocations down his throat...