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...political harlequinade, and Republican dignitaries lined up with grins wide enough for tooth inspection as the presidential Columbine III touched down at San Francisco's International Airport just ahead of the fog bank rolling over the San Bruno hills. Dwight Eisenhower, his face ruddy with returned strength and alight with expectation, stepped lightly from the big airplane, faced microphones and told why he had come a day ahead of schedule to the scene of the Republican National Convention. "I suddenly discovered this was too interesting a place to stay away from," he said. "I just read the names...
...radio and television Berman pleaded with Marines, past and present, to come forth with testimony about their own experiences in the Parris Island boondocks. Within minutes the Parris Island switchboard was alight; ten operators went on special duty; by the next night 300 telephone calls and 300 telegrams had been received. In the courtroom, Berman demanded-and won-the right to inspect the answers to a questionnaire on training practices sent out by the Corps after the Parris Island tragedy. The overwhelming verdict of the 27,000 Marines polled: tough training should not only be continued, but in some cases...
Artificial Islands. The company tried an experiment of setting guards to protect small peninsulas where a few birds alight occasionally. The guards shot predators such as foxes and condors, drove away egg-stealing humans. The birds responded at once by accepting the protected peninsulas as artificial islands. They came by thousands, then by millions, and settled down to fishing and producing guano...
...unconscious" ravings to perplex the reader, because Graves despises all "socalled surrealists, impressionists, expressionists and neo-romantics." Such "affections of madness" are, Graves believes, the reason why almost all modern forms of art seem meaningless to the beholder; the creative fire of the Western world is still alight, but it fizzles up in willful smoke...
...Permitting Russians to enter Cambridge is neither a threat to United States security nor a alight on the importance of Cambridge," State Department officials said. "It would do the Russians good to see a monument to American democratic education like Harvard," they added...