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This year's tour followed the old tradition: to the clatter of cowbells, bagpipes and lusty Breton hymns, the pilgrims marched the ten penitential miles. Bearing crosses and banners, whole families walked together, singing and praying. The young helped the old across improvised bridges and through the sharp stubble of newly sickled wheat. At twelve resting places along the way, prayers were recited in makeshift chapels. That evening Locronan doors stayed open, and big rustic tables were laden with crêpes, bread, butter and cider. Last week the rituals ended with midnight Mass and a pageant re-enacting...
...glanced with brief distaste at a specially installed Teletype; at any moment it might clatter out an urgent message-from the Pentagon, summoning him to a conference in Washington; from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, asking his views on the instrumentation of a new moon shoot. But this morning he was not molested; he emerged two hours later, notes in hand, and headed for his classroom. For 50 minutes Van Allen lectured to Iowa undergraduates on the theory of transformers, then quipped: "All this is very good in theory, but in practice, you take a piece of iron, wind...
This week, without contracts and with a vague strike threat in the air, furloughed Detroit workers were back on the assembly line, putting together cars for a new and hopefully better model year. Down the line with a clatter came the first 19595. Buick was slated to start first; four Chrysler divisions-Dodge, De Soto, Chrysler and Imperial-planned to tailgate close behind. Chevrolet and Plymouth were both to close out their 1958 model runs, quickly move new dies into place for 1959. Only Ford held aloof, will produce 1958 Mercurys, Fords, Lincolns and Edsels through August...
There is a tale making the slow rounds about the Art of Henry James. James, it goes, constructed a great Gothic Cathedral of his craft. Beneath the arches and between the pews our heels clatter and our voices echo. But upon arriving at the altar (so says the story) we discover a dead...
...pressing his crusade into Capitol Hill, the President breakfasted (cantaloupe, scrambled eggs and bacon, kippered herring, toast, coffee) with 15 Republican Congressmen. When the small talk amid the table clatter was over, Ike got his serious business off his chest. "These," said he, "are four simple musts." The four: Defense Department reorganization ("If war should come, and I pray that it doesn't, we would have to make improvements anyway"); a strong foreign aid bill to counter Soviet economic penetration; extension of reciprocal trade ("We all want to help domestic industries, but the only way the U.S. can survive...