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...hair is then whitened with powder and molded over an egg-shaped wire frame usually 2-to 3-feet high. For daytime outings, this concoction is decorated with ribbons, feathers, flowers, birds' nests or vegetables. After entertaining eleven young women recently, a London hostess boasted that "they had, amongst them, on their heads, an acre and a half of shrubbery, besides slopes, grass plots, tulip beds...
...listing the causes that impelled the Colonies to declare independence last week, the Continental Congress charged King George III with inciting "domestic insurrections amongst us." It meant Britain's encouragement of Indian attacks upon colonists, but Massachusetts Delegate John Adams says that "another tribe more numerous and powerful than all the rest were grown discontented." The warning in fact came from his spirited wife Abigail, who recently surprised her husband by addressing him in terms less than dutiful: "In the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would...
Several Faculty members have said recently they think Harvard graduates could exert a leavening influence on the military. Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty for the Colleges who proposed the new resolution, said at the meeting he believes it better that there be "some of us amongst them" than to be totally alienated from the military...
...Besides, it's better to have some of us amongst them than be totally alienated from the military," he added...
Carter also took most of the liberal vote in Florida. It was a sad-and-sick-and-sunk-amongst-the-sharks liberal vote, but the idea was to stop Wallace, and stop Wallace they did. George Wallace drew only 31 per cent of the Democratic vote, against Carter's 34 in a state where he swamped the field with 42 per cent...