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...organization grown fat, arrogant and corrupt. With the help of the Grundy machine, Duff was elected governor in 1946-and was one of the state's ablest. A major reason for his success was his refusal to show fear or favor toward the machine that demanded both. The breakup was swift and spectacular: Duff's Senate election in 1950 was almost as bitter to the Old Guardsmen as Democrat Joe Clark's Philadelphia mayoralty win in 1951 or Democrat George Leader's gubernatorial victory...
...lost planet there was no water, so the glass on its surface survived until the final breakup. Then chunks of it sailed around the solar system along with chunks of metal and rock. When they hit the earth's atmosphere, the glass shattered into small fragments as soon as it began to get hot. The fragments fell to earth as tektites. When a fragment had the right shape to keep it from tumbling as it moved through the air, the molten glass that was wiped off the forward end frequently solidified as "wings" or an "apron" attached...
Hail to Sol Randall: iconoclast, philosopher, non-seeker after the ranking deity of the U.S.: Success. Sol correctly senses the futility of making a success out of marriage with a social-climbing, materialistic female, so he faces the breakup without regret. . . . The ills that beset the Randalls can be found to a greater or lesser degree in so many U.S. marriages and in Yolaine's edict: "No money...
JOHN ("HONEST JOHN") KELLY. While the Tweed Ring was crumbling, John Kelly, onetime soapstone cutter grown to influence in Tammany, wisely absented himself from the scene; he went off to inspect the Holy Land. Upon the Ring's breakup, Kelly hastened back to the U.S. with four oil paintings, including The Return of the Prodigal Son, which he presented to St. Patrick's Cathedral. He took over as Boss of Tammany, ruled for 14 years with relative rectitude, and died of a broken heart after his political enemy, Grover Cleveland, became President...
Officers and Gentlemen ends, after the rout on Crete and the nearly simultaneous breakup of the Russo-German alliance, with the hero's "deflation." Crouchback finds himself "back after less than two years' pilgrimage in a Holy Land of illusion in the old ambiguous world, where priests were spies and gallant friends proved traitors and his country was led blundering into dishonor." In a last "symbolical act," however, Crouchback burns papers he had brought out from Crete which would have proved that his fellow aristocrat-that faultlessly bred International Equestrian Champion Ivor Claire, whom he had once thought...