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Even in a country that is forced to dream Zarchin had trouble peddling his plan. After arriving in Palestine in 1947, the pale little man patiently trotted from ministry to ministry, haunting anterooms and grabbing coat sleeves. Desperately he fired off letters to Premier Ben-Gurion that were answered by an evasive secretary. "No one knew me," recalls Zarchin He was referred to as a "nudnik" (pedantic fusspot). "There were lots of cranks in Israel, and everyone thought...
...madness that gripped Paris: "A lightning-quick epidemic which forces different and antagonistic persons all to obey the same mysterious order, to submit themselves to new habits which overturn their old ways of life, up to the moment when a new order arrives and obliges them to turn their coat once more...
...Francisco's Standard Building Co.. which has handled several thousand trade-in deals, sends appraisers to the prospective buyer's old house, tries to offer a fair market price. Once the deal goes through, Standard modernizes the trade-in, gives it a fresh coat of paint, then sells it. Standard expects little profit on the old house, makes its money on the new ones it sells...
...Yeller wasn't much to look at: big, ungainly and downright ugly, with his mangy yellow coat and sneak-thief ways. But in Texas of the 1860s, with father away on a cattle drive to Kansas and mother and small brother to look after, Travis figured that any cur around the farm was better than none. Old Yeller had just drifted in from nowhere, helped himself to a nice side of meat and decided that he had found a home. As it turned out, Old Yeller did great things for the isolated little family. He ran down rabbits...
...early 1800s, Sir Duncan Campbell, captain in H.M. Third Scots Fusilier Guards, donned his scarlet coat, carefully adjusted his black-and-white stock, tied on his red sash, buckled on his sword, and presented himself at Henry Raeburn's Edinburgh studio on York Place. As was his custom, Painter Raeburn squinted at his subject from under his heavy eyebrows, then boldly painted in Campbell's forehead, chin, nose and mouth directly on the canvas. Four or five visits later, the portrait (opposite) was done...