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...weren't born in Mississippi. I was. You don't know what you're talking about," shouted one juror. "I've worked in a factory all my life, and I didn't kill anybody," said another. A third voice: "Did you see that cement room in the plant? Working there would have driven anyone crazy." A fourth: "The man needs help. You know he won't get it in prison. It's up to us to help...
Rather than bog the nation down in the cement of firm treaties, President and Congress might explore less formal but more flexible commitments in the form of diplomatic notes or presidential statements...
...late afternoon of April 5. In a Dantesque scene, gases, glowing cinders, red-hot boulders and seething lava (temperature: about 2,000° F.) spewed out of newly opened boccas, or mouths, on Etna's upper slopes. Hot tongues of lava engulfed the old three-story cement-and-stone volcanological observatory near the top of the mountain and bent the pylons of an aerial tramway into uselessness. The fiery streams rolled over protective rock dikes placed in their path, ignited valuable fruit trees like matchsticks and threatened Sant'Alfio and at least one other village on the highly...
...gallery. Burger's ceremonial spadework was the more convincing-perhaps because of his youthful days as a day laborer working on the Robert Street bridge, which spans the Mississippi. That job also helped develop his judicial prudence. The contractor, he recalls, told him to use three bags less cement in the concrete when the inspectors were not looking. "I used the full amount all the time," says Burger, "but I hid the three extra empties to keep from getting caught. Maybe that is what has held the bridge up all these years...
...help cement such loyalties, Humbard once a month packs a small, multipurpose staff* into a four-engine Viscount turboprop to fly to one-night stands around the northern U.S. and Canada. Last week Humbard was in Chatham, Ont. (pop. 33,000) to play to a crowd of 2,700. Both the music and the message were familiar: "I believe that God wants us to be happy 'cause there's enough troubles in the world," he told the audience. Afterward, like a candidate on the hustings, he signed autographs and pressed flesh for 25 minutes while the crews packed...