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...culturally forbidden to talk back. The first Christian church was one that looked forward in strained and eager anticipation to the end days and the coming again of the Lord. The church of today looks back to the Pilgrim Fathers or to the founding of the First Church of Cedar Elms...
...barriers were purdah, which segregated man from woman, and the crypto-snobbery that kept the foreign colony aloof from the Afghan people. They were barriers, it would seem, that would last as long as the Koran and Kipling, except that Miss Klass did not come all the way from Cedar Rapids to be barred by them...
Through Prickly Pear. Moursund is an all-round man in the best Texas tradition. He controls a local bank. He can survey land, brand cattle, ride a horse through prickly pear cactus, steer his Lincoln Continental through cedar brush in pursuit of game, drop a deer with unerring aim, then gut and skin the animal. To the Judge ranching is more of a pleasure than a source of income. Explains an associate: "He gets a real kick out of manipulating cattle from one pasture to another." He also enjoys food in quantity. When he speaks of a "couple of hamburgers...
...that all Americans will join with you in honest solutions to these problems." The President had replied in good nature that he could well afford: "I thank you for your expressed desire to cooperate in the work that faces us all in the days and weeks ahead." Sundown & a Cedar Fire. Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey, just ar rived at the ranch from Minneapolis, clumped gamely along at Johnson's side, wearing a pair of size 1 1 cowboy boots on his size 8 feet and a five-gallon hat on what appeared to be a six-gallon head...
...after dinner, Lyndon and Hu bert kidded about their pre-election predictions; Johnson had said 44 states for the Democrats, Humphrey had guessed 45. Depending on how Arizona came out, either could have been right. Any how, they had a most amicable jawing session in front of a blazing cedar fire until well after midnight...