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...Sure, Tim." Kenny bought an open cardboard tray of two dozen large eggs, and we got another tray to put on top of them. The man, who was watching pro wrestling from Orlando, offered to tie the eggs up with string, but Kenny said naw, he had an elastic rope he used for books on the back seat. When we hooked it up, it stretched taut in the center, but the eggs on the sides had to be held down...
...Nickel" ..."Quarter"-whatever it was. That was more of a feat than it might seem. Steveland Morris had been blind since birth. He had also been unstoppable. By the time he was two, spoons in hand, Stevie was beating away rhythmically on pans and tabletops, or on dime-store cardboard drums. At nine, he was singing and playing harmonica up and down the Detroit ghetto streets, and being eased out of the church choir for singing rock 'n' roll. Three years later, he had become the "twelve-year-old genius" of Motown Records, the black pop giant. Rechristened...
...Kennan, the uncle of American ambassador George F. Kennan, was--like his nephew--an expert on the history of Russia. Kennan's private collection of artifacts of Russian history is maintained by the Prints and Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress. The collection is stored in five separate cardboard boxes, and among the artifacts are scores of photographs of Russian revolutionaries. Most of the men and women portrayed in the photos were part of the struggle that commenced in the early 1870s and culminated with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II on April 3, 1881. I photographed the pictures...
...pattern is the same in several other key industries. Paper mills last year found themselves unable to meet demand for products ranging from newsprint to grocery bags to cardboard boxes. This year, industry executives plan to increase spending on new factories and machinery by 34.4%, to $2.5 billion. Demand for steel far outstripped supply last year. Now the biggest steel users, the automakers, are cutting back orders sharply, but the nation's mills still cannot melt and roll steel fast enough to fill the needs of other customers. So, steelmen expect to boost 1974 capital spending...
...stood between the donkey and the sun [Dombey and Son]...I turned in a full circle. My rich young and handsome friends had disappeared. Changed. In their places were cardboard cutouts. I picked the thick paper men up [Pickwick Papers...