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...against high prices, low wages, and the sight of luxury in its midst. Trying to call off a mob from burning a Greek church, a Turkish woman lawyer, Surreya Agaoglu, shouted from her balcony that the marauders were endangering their own homes. "What have we to lose but a blanket and a pot?" came a harridan's screech from the mob. "You wait in your fine home. Your turn will come!" By then it was poor against rich...
...peninsulas have now been cut off with eight-foot walls. A typical one, Punto Salinas, 73 miles north of Lima, has 70 acres of birds. Mostly black-and-white guanays (cormorants), they stand wing to wing like a rippling blanket. Though the colony was established only this year, it already numbers some 2,500,000 birds. Other shore colonies are growing as fast, and some of them allow the birds to exploit parts of the fish-rich sea they could not reach before...
...debate with New York attorney C. Dickerman Williams on the uses of the controversial constitutional guarantee, Griswold said that no blanket inference can be drawn from the use of the amendment...
...without any written evidence at all. It seems that McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and Francis Carr ran the committee by a casual gentlemen's agreement under which a tip that some person had worked on a Government project, if it looked juicy enough, might lead to a subpoena and to blanket questions like, "Who else worked with you?" This is exactly what liberals have been saying about McCarthy's investigating methods for years, of course, but it is reassuring, even at this late date, to get the information from the Senator himself...
...figured out how to prevent war and even to outwit death; that is, The Company has figured it out. With its globe-circling arm of Underwriters, Actuaries, Claim Adjusters, Regional Directors and Expediters, The Company has figured out almost everything. Blue Plate Policy coupons provide for food; Blue Blanket coverage takes care of shelter, clothing and babies; the Blue Bolt "war and disaster complex of policies" insures against all misfortune-all except for the misfortune of being pronounced Class E and therefore "completely uninsurable." Most marvelous boon of all is the "Suspension Vaults." A policyholder stricken with "radiation" poisoning...