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...center of the rear windows of our cars that tell tailgating drivers to hit the brakes. And while Hillary may tell us that it takes a village to raise a child, Elizabeth made sure that we know how to find the emergency exit in a smoke-filled airline cabin. If the two women ever did hold that debate, Elizabeth might try to argue that she's "a doer, not a talker...
UNCLE HARRISON'S "LOG CABIN...
...girls slept four to a cabin, but our accommodations were like the Ritz compared with the men, who often slept on the deck rather than in the hold. We all shared one canvas tank in which to train--we would swim strapped to the side of the tank. Jack Kelly, a handsome, charming man and a splendid rower, was on that trip. He was Grace Kelly's father, you know. And despite all the chaperones, there was romance in the air. Alice Lord, one of our divers, later married Richmond Landon, who won the gold medal in the high jump...
...Jefferson was arguing that the new nation's future would depend on a base of agrarian yeomen free from the vices inherent in big cities. One of the classic, image-driven presidential campaigns featured William Henry Harrison as the embodiment of homey rural virtues, the candidate of the log cabin and hard cider, defeating the incumbent Martin Van Buren, who was accused of dandified dress and manners. One of Van Buren's more vocal detractors was Davy Crockett, who went from frontiersman to the U.S. Congress without ever trading in his coonskin cap for a top hat. (A century later...
...some combination of age and poor maintenance. Now they are focusing on a new culprit: the 50 to 60 oxygen generators believed to have been stowed--perhaps mistakenly--in the forward cargo hold of the aircraft. The generators, which are used on some planes to provide oxygen if the cabin undergoes sudden depressurization, can get as hot as 500 degrees F when activated; the heat, combined with the oxygen, can result in combustion...