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When he goes on the stump, the President certainly has one banner that he can-and does-wave effectively: the considerable accomplishments of his Administration. He repeatedly harks back to the gloomy days of the '30s, reminding his audiences that the problems of prosperity are infinitely preferable to those of depression. Again and again, he tells listeners that they never had it so good, and he unabashedly counts America's-and his-blessings in his speeches. "We have many problems," he says, "but there is not a nation in the world that I would want to trade problems...
...speaker was Thailand's Premier Thanom Kittikachorn, and the occasion was proof of the conviction of his words. As Buddhist monks chanted blessings, the Thai leader stood on a wooden platform overlooking the Gulf of Siam and watched balloons lift a banner from a large stone embedded in the ground. On the stone was the inscription: "U-Tapao Airfield, dedicated to the furtherance of peace through strength and friendship...
...House policemen were crying "Lock the doors!" in preparation for the vote, a news dispatch was passed down the Conservatives' Front Bench. What they read caught the Tories-and the nation-by surprise. Said one admirer of Wilson's fast footwork: "The press can only carry one banner headline...
...contribute money in the manner of architects in the expectation that if their man is elected he will assist them in practicing their particular art, on behalf of and at the expense of, the people of Massachusetts," Galbraith wrote in the Boston Globe. The article, which ran as a banner story on page one of yesterday's morning edition, had been requested by the newspaper...
...July 15, 1943, a U.S. fighter plane flying a yellow banner emblazoned with a black "L" dropped a small nylon bag in the plaza of Villalba, Sicily. The bag was addressed to "Uncle Calo"-Calogero Vizzini, the millionaire chief of Italy's Mafia. In the bag was a gold foulard handkerchief belonging "to Gangster Lucky Luciano-a sign that Lucky wanted his old pals to play paisan to the Yanks. Four days later, when three U.S. tanks rolled into town, Vizzini climbed into one of them, clattered off to direct a joint Mafia-Allied operation, which pincered German...