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Dawn broke cold and grey. Calm in its majesty beside the Thames, the palace of Westminster emerged from the drifting mist. Across the river stood the starkly modern outline of Festival Hall, its garden windows catching the first pale light. Far downstream, the dome and finial of St. Paul'...
As the black, slush-splattered ZILs, Chaikas and Mercedeses of the gathered leaders crisscrossed Warsaw's wintry streets, it was clear that defense was not all that crucial a discussion point. And it was just as clear from the official silence that no hard agreement had been reached on...
*A strikingly similar situation developed after Tom Dewey's 1948 defeat. With an angry coalition of Taft and Stassen forces denouncing him as "a symbol of Dewey misrule" and demanding his departure, then National Chairman Hugh Scott called a meeting of the committee in wintry Omaha, Neb., in January...
Then, ten years later, his name came up in testimony at the Ulm mass-murder trial, and West German investigators quietly began a closer look at his past. On a wintry day in January 1962, two plainclothesmen knocked on the door of Wolff's lakeside Munich villa and hauled...
On wintry mornings, when the sun burns off the pearl and filthy mist, Fuji still soars beyond the freeway. And every week a dozen tank cars rumble through the pine grove of the Imperial Palace, hosing dust and soot from the drooping needles. The harbor itself, and the once limpid...