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Dyslexia Praecox. Susan started out with what should have been an insuperable handicap for an actress. She had dyslexia, a congenital brain condition that hampers her ability to read aloud. She still aches at memories of trying to get through London's Hampshire School (founded by her mother). "I remember standing up in class trying to read Shakespeare, and I could hear all the other children sniggering and laughing, because I'd be literally making it up. I remember thinking: when I grow up, people are not going to laugh at me. So I thought, who do they...
...essentially strong, if its financial distortions continue much longer, it could tumble into serious difficulties. Some prominent Wall Streeters worried aloud last week that the economy stands on the brink of financial crisis. They were frankly concerned that marginal corporations, which have exhausted their cash and bank credit during the long money famine, may be unable to raise necessary funds and fall into bankruptcy...
...generals who surrounded him. When his picture first flashed onto the screen, perhaps a fourth of the audience, gathered in Moscow last week for the first public showing of the 3½-hour feature film Osvobozhdeniye (Liberation), broke into spontaneous applause. Others remained coldly silent. At least one recalled aloud the suffering that had been caused by losif Vissarionovich Stalin...
...border with Cambodia. Although it shielded no fewer than five large North Vietnamese and Viet Cong sanctuaries, the U.S. refused to violate Cambodia's neutrality by crossing the border to destroy them. Frustrated American military men, peering across valleys at one or another of the inviolable areas, often wished aloud: "If only they'd let us lose the map." Last week their Commander in Chief, Richard Nixon, ordered them to do exactly that. Pointing to the Communist sanctuaries on his own White House map, the President announced that he had ordered thousands of U.S. combat troops onto Cambodian soil...
Winding ever higher, the Cal Zephyr disappears into the dank blackness of the 6.2-mile Moffat Tunnel, which crosses the Continental Divide at an elevation of 9,239 ft. After the train emerges, H.C. Livingstone lights an after-dinner cigar and remembers aloud how he worked on the tunnel until its completion in 1928. "There were a lot of bad accidents on that job," he recalls. "In the four years it took to finish it, 81 workers were killed...