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...laughter, he looked upon man as the most arrogant of the apes and found him passing strange: "Man is the only animal who's got the true religion-several of 'em." Twain wonders aloud if mankind would not have been better off if Noah had missed the Ark: "To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French...
...editors emerge triumphant from court after tangling in print with their readers. Last week Gene Wirges, 39, former editor of the weekly Democrat in Morrilton, Ark., was sentenced to three years in prison for perjury...
...Windshield Factor. Adding to the problem was the fact that catastrophes occurred on top of an unusual rash of mere disasters. A Pennsylvania Railroad train derailment cost Travelers Insurance Co. $500,000. In the worst fire of the year, 53 men died in a missile-silo explosion at Searcy, Ark.; the entire insurance loss, amounting to almost $1,000,000, was borne by Aetna Life & Casualty Co. Most important, injuries and damage from auto accidents-which account for 40% of all casualty business-reached an alltime high. Not only were accidents more numerous, but they cost more; a smashed windshield...
...into Canada, where he found one of the few legal no man's lands left in a modern society-a strip between low and high tide in wilderness land near Vancouver. He built a cabin on stilts and sent letters out into the world like pigeons from the ark. The Lowrys were often close to starvation; the cabin burned down, and Lowry was badly burned himself saving his manuscript...
...They played a football game in three acts in Fayetteville, Ark., last week. The first lasted 30 minutes, and Arkan sas had all the lines. The second lasted 26 minutes, and Texas was the lone star. The third lasted only four minutes, but it brought down the house...