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Plug. In Bath, England, the city fathers announced that for the first time in two years the Bath water supply was full to the brim...
...predawn darkness at New York's Idlewild Airport, a mustached, parrot-nosed man in a snap-brim hat and grey overcoat alighted from a chartered Scandinavian Airlines DC-7C, was soon swept into a knot of welcomers and greeted in a torrent of Russian. The visitor: Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan, Khrushchev's top economic adviser and political crony...
...British tourist from flopping hat brim to suede shoes, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd-hung with beach robe, towel, goggles, slippers and a florid sports shirt-headed for the beach on Spain's Costa Brava...
Such praise makes Horiuchi's eyes brim with gratitude. His early years were difficult and lonely. Trained as a child in Japan in brush and sumi, he came to the U.S. with his family at 15 and settled in Rock Springs, Wyo., where he got a job on the Union Pacific and learned western technique from a visiting WPA art instructor. Two months after Pearl Harbor he was fired, ordered to quit his company house within 24 hours. He burned all the possessions he could not pack into his jalopy and trailer, took to the road with his wife...
...were still simple-minded beasts that could understand nothing but predigested figures. Later they acquired senses of a sort: they could feel changes of temperature, hear musical tones, recognize differences of light and shade. But they could not see as humans see. A primrose by the river's brim-or even a picture of one-meant nothing to a computer...