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...tent before Troy was the aftermath of a quarrel over the daughter of Chryses, high priest of the tiny island's temple of Apollo. Another famed Greek warrior, the archer Philoctetes, never got beyond Chryse; stopping off there on his way to Troy, Philoctetes was fatally bitten by a viper loosed on him, according to legend, by a local nymph whose advances he had spurned. But after that, mythology's Baedeker records little of Chryse, and some time about 240 B.C. the island mysteriously disappeared -sunk under the Aegean, so historians conjectured, by one of the earthquakes common...
...Education on down--are standing up as best they can for education and the law. The hatred and stupidity chat can keep children (who know no better) out of school and can find its only real expression in profanity and acts of violence, must sober even the hard bitten cheap politicans that surround Governor Jimmie Davis...
...King and some 50 supporters had been arrested the week before by Atlanta police for picketing and sit-in demonstrations at downtown department store lunch counters that refused them service. It was a touchy situation, and Atlanta's Mayor William Hartsfield hoped not to inflame it. But hard-bitten Judge Oscar Mitchell of De Kalb County's criminal and civil court decided that King's arrest in Atlanta violated a year's probation imposed on King in late September, along with a $25 fine, for driving in Georgia with an Alabama license. King's lawyers...
...every summer day to taste each batch of raw hot dogs. His formula: garlic, paprika and top-grade steer meat so lean that it will not pop the hot dog open when it is grilled - all encased in sheep membrane to give the dog just the right snap when bitten. When an upstate member of the New York state senate once derided a bill as being "as old and wrinkled as a warmed-over Coney Island hot dog," Nathan's indignantly fired off a batch of hot dogs to the state capital. The offending senator ate one and asked...
...Need Food." By prearrangement, Proctor picked up the first batch of Boyd copy for distribution to the 40-odd papers that had bitten on the Chronicle bait...