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...support of its plea for reunification pledged "our Lives, what is left of our Fortunes and what is left of our sacred Honour." The Economist's Declaration was a new wrinkle on an old theme: in George Bernard Shaw's 1929 political comedy, The Apple Cart, a British monarch rejects a U.S. plea for reunification out of fear that England would become, in effect, just another American state...
Discouraged by these events, hundreds of New Yorkers gathered up such belongings as were easily carried and left the city by cart and foot, creaking their way northward through the green fields that border Bowery Lane. One American officer recalls his wife's fear of being caught in battle: "You can scarcely conceive the distress and anxiety that she then had. The city is in an uproar and everything in the height of bustle. I scolded like a fury at her for not having gone before." The destination of the fleeing New Yorkers: the King's Bridge...
...almost normally. Until the very end, gutsy P.T.T. (Post, Telegraph and Telephone) officials kept telex and telephones alive, while Middle East Airlines, the country's flag carrier, flew in and out of a sandbagged airport that frequently took mortar fire, until it finally closed. Food prices soared, but cart vendors always seemed to have fresh produce for sale. Merchants who had lost their shops in downtown fighting transformed the once flashy Corniche into an open-air souk, closed only on days when the artillery thumped dangerously close. With no censor about, a few movie theaters even were daring enough...
Bonnie Angelo's final week with Idaho Senator Frank Church was no kind of show at all. He was haunted by the tragic flood in his home state. "Even his plane was wrecked by a runaway airport-maintenance cart in Cleveland," says Angelo, "and a telephone strike prevented him from learning the bad voting results...
House had been responsible for holding the Expos at bay in the final innings, and was preparing to do a few wind sprints in the outfield when he was confronted by three reporters who were lounging in a nearby golf cart...