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That anecdote suggests the innocence in the Irish character that is both appealing and maddening, and Novelist O'Faolain knows as much about it as any Irishman now working: "Ireland is learning, as Americans say, the hard way. Ireland has clung to her youth, indeed to her childhood, longer and more tenaciously than any other country in Europe...
...long while, it seemed that Alvin York was determined to contribute to another Army legend-that old soldiers never die. He had begun to fade as early as 1949, when he suffered a stroke, was repeatedly hospitalized thereafter, but he clung to life. Only last week did death, of "general debility," finally come in a Nashville Veterans Administration hospital to Alvin York...
...defeated whites clung to the past when Mississippi had been one of the richest states in the Union and Jefferson Davis the rebel President. They were scared because they felt that they were few and the Negroes myriad; they were stubborn because only by convincing themselves that the Negro was somehow inferior, like a pet or a horse, could they justify their long crime of refusing to recognize him as an equal human being; they were violent, partly from the strain of sustaining this myth, partly from fear that if the myth was once cracked, at any point...
...least $11 million last year. Smart merchandising counts most in the wax business, and Johnson is usually a stride ahead of competitors. It was among the first to switch from natural waxes to lower-cost synthetics in 1950, turned to aerosols (now 70% of industry sales) while competitors clung to older wipe-on waxes and polishes. The company raised its research and development staff from 100 to 300 in the past ten years, now markets 750 products. They are put to some unusual uses in unlikely places. Finnish yachtsmen have discovered that Johnson's ordinary Paste Wax keeps barnacles...
...closed. One theory was that the gate attendants had deserted their posts to watch the game's climax. Rank upon rank of screaming, struggling humanity crashed against the steel until the doors burst open and the mob surged over the crushed bodies in the corridors. Strips of skin clung to the walls, and in places the corpses were six deep. The death toll at the gates alone was 200. Outside, the rioting crowd rolled on through the streets, smashing windows and burning vehicles, forcing police reinforcements to fire into their midst. Small parties of ghouls scurried around, looting...