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...sketchbook. Their lot was to go wherever the winds of combat blew, to live under fire, to endure the privation, hardship and danger of the campaign for months on end, and to send to the illustrated newspapers that employed them rough and hasty sketches whose chief purpose was to cue the wood engraver back home. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox-at Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and the Wilderness-they recorded the bloody course of the conflict with a vitality that has earned them a unique and permanent place in the annals of the press...
Once again, for the umpteenth time since World War II, it was time for their leaders to remind this nation of traders that they must export or perish. It is a lesson Britons know well, and on cue they burst into selfcriticism. Critics cited examples of British firms that still often give Continental customers specifications of products in feet instead of meters. Others complained that some British companies neglect to provide service for their products after they sell them, as their German rivals do. Still others told of Dutch and German firms that snatched contracts away from Britons by promising...
...Cairo University and practiced and taught law in Damascus before emigrating to France during World War II. Fascinated by the sleazy world of the Place Pigalle, Martini tried to carve himself a slice at war's end but was scared off by the swaggering Corsican gangsters of Pierre Cue, then King of the Place Pigalle. Martini tried his luck in the U.S. in 1947, opening a nightclub off Times Square called the French Casino...
...years later he was back in Paris, complaining that he had been chased from New York by "the Syndicate." But Martini had apparently learned a caper or two during his U.S. stay. While gangsters like Pierre Cue were shot dead, Businessman Martini secured the backing of Vietnamese and Arab moneylenders and bought up nightclub real estate...
...start, The Game took on the air of a staged affair, as ABC-TV directors wandered all over the Stadium seemingly ready to cue in the players on where to run, when to fumble, and--unfortunately--how to intercept passes. But the game produced several interesting surprises, and even the score was not the 55 to 0 mentioned in Yale's pre-game script...