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...began with the giveaways . . . They backed away from any number of their campaign programs . . . They want to dream away the Russian menace . . . The giveaway, back-away, dream-away of 1953 will become the vote-away of 1954." ¶ Ex-Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan told 200 newspaper editors assembled in Boulder, Colo.: "You can't produce prosperity through scarcity, but it looks as if the present Administration is going to try it." ¶ Democratic National Chairman Steve Mitchell, off on a twelve-day speaking tour through the West, said in Tacoma, Wash, that by helping elect a "giveaway" Government...
...boulder-strewn lava plain outside Mexico City, 10,000 workmen, artists and engineers labored last week to finish Mexico's biggest single construction job since the building of the Halls of Montezuma (circa 1500). For the 401-year-old University of Mexico, North America's oldest university,* they were creating a handsome, ultramodern University City, spectacularly expressive of the new, post-revolutionary Mexico. Scheduled for occupancy early next year, the dazzling, $50 million University City is the most up-to-date college campus anywhere...
...North American continent for such a thing. It took Kraft and a small army of prospector friends five years to prove them wrong. Roaming the U.S., they found the bright greens in tiny pockets from Alaska to Wyoming, discovered the rare rose jade in a single small boulder in California, the even rarer white jade in a steep Arizona canyon. Kraft studied great windows of the past, decided that a simple cross would be the best design, then began cutting the hard stone to a thickness of three millimeters (about as thick as a half-dollar). He had to call...
...after school, in company with the comrades he later canonized as saints of skulduggery, that Sam executed his really important exploits. There was, for instance, the diligent excavation on Holliday Hill (the Cardiff Hill of the books) that freed at last the great boulder which, as Sam and a friend gazed in ecstasy, shot down the slope, scattered a woodpile, leaped over a passing dray and wrecked a cooper's shop-at which point the boys felt a call from elsewhere, and went there...
...again against threatening weather and a lately arrived team of Italians, the climbers took a longer but safer route, up the Dru's north face and over to the point where they had left off earlier. Nearing the needle-like summit, the second man loosened a great boulder that plummeted so close to Dagory that it ripped off his knapsack and scattered a cascade of bright Jordan almonds down the mountainside. But by late afternoon the four men were perched atop the Dru, waiting for aerial photographers to record their triumph. Europe's last unconquered passage had been...