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...story came off as if it had been spliced together in a film cutter's studio. C. H. ("Joe") Colledge, directing NBC's network picture, and CBS's Don Hewitt called for their Washington mobile units to pick up Harry Truman's car as it whisked to a stop a few feet from Truman's private plane. Televiewers watched Truman turn and wave at the precise moment that his alternate, Thomas Gavin, cast the President's vote in Chicago. A few hours later, mobile trucks caught Truman again, this time at Chicago...
Unity is not uniformity. If private and parochial schools are divisive . . . then so are ynagogues and churches, so are yachting clubs and vets' organizations, so are Knights lemplar and Knights of Columbus. God deliver us from the spectre of an America in which the cookie-cutter of democracy stamps out millions of rigidly uniform dolls of the same neutral grey. Even Macy's dolls come in different sizes and colors...
...brig Télémaque that January night in 1790 was really nails and tar, as the manifest stated, it was wrapped in astonishing secrecy. As the little vessel passed the Seineside village of Villequier on her way to Le Havre and the open sea, a cutter of the revolutionary government decided to investigate, and ordered the Télémaque to heave to. Instead, she made a break for it, and raced down the Seine on the crest of the tide. Off the village of Quillebeuf, she hit a sandbank, broached to and capsized. By the time...
...poor farmer of mixed blood, he was born in 1901, while his country was still under U.S. occupation, at the eastern sugar town of Banes. Quitting Banes' Quaker School at twelve, he worked as a tailor's apprentice, bartender, barber, banana picker, cane cutter and railroad hand. At 20 he joined the Army. To other soldiers, he was virtually a literary type: there was always a book or magazine under the pillow of his bunk. When he got the chance, he studied shorthand and became a sergeant-stenographer, handling secret papers, working with high officers, traveling around...
...Cutter (n.) : Space between facing pages...