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Notwithstanding their fears, the Alaskans were also exuding confidence. To many, the earthquake was a blessing in disguise: an opportunity to rebuild the state, a chance to tear down the rest of the antiquated and otherwise unsuitable structures in the towns and to create modern cities that could blossom in a fresh and viable economy. "The history of areas like this," said Anchorage Banker Elmer Rasmuson, "is that they rebuild and get much better than they were before. I'm satisfied that we have the basic soundness on which to rebuild in a more modern fashion. This...
...presidential palace, where he had been hiding since the French put him back in power, Autocrat Mba promised a thorough investigation. But it took no board of inquiry to conclude that Mba and the French have only themselves to blame for allowing "sterile agitation" to blossom into fecund antigovernment, anti-French feeling. It may be a long time before French troops dare pull out of Gabon...
...since Daddy is Commander in Chief of just about everything there is in the U.S. these days, Lucy Baines Johnson, 16, didn't get to see the Beatles at all. But L.BJ. did agree to allow his younger daughter to serve as queen of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in April. Small recompense, but Lucy-or Luci, as she now likes to spell it-was thrilled. "I've never been anything," said she, "not even a duchess...
This grotesque tale of a happy marriage has the unsettling effect on a reader of a stop-motion film, in which otherwise familiar flowers bud, blossom and decay in a few shallow breaths of a viewer's time...
...exhibit shows the variety of Max Ernst's works. "The Forest" (1926) and "Nature at Day-break" (1938), both oils rich and stifling in their intensity, are particularly striking. Joan Miro's bright colors and large simplified forms, distorted to his purposes, blossom in the famous "Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird" (1926), the large "Landscape" (1927), and another highpoint of the exhibition, "Portrait of a Lady...