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...demon for detail, Floriot furiously drives a research staff of six lawyers, known as "l'usine Floriot" (the Floriot factory). Gifted with prodigious memory, he can simplify the most complex case for the dullest of jurors. While other French lawyers deliver elegantly vague speeches to nodding, berobed judges, Floriot deals in facts, not forensic flourishes. In a profession heavily weighted toward lawyers with social standing, Floriot has succeeded entirely on drive and shrewdness...
...Europe's major musical forces. He was also a fanatical-looking figure-5 ft. 6 in. tall, thin, gazing fiercely from behind rimless spectacles-yet, as his protégé Bruno Walter wrote, "his spirit never knew escape from the torturing question: 'For what?' " Demon-driven, he sought the answer in the music he wrote in spare moments, making each piece a gigantic shadow play of the dark forces that struggled in his soul...
...Davie Napier believes that God and man are cheapened by the idea that good behavior can buy "a good berth in the afterlife." As for hell, Napier shares the growing consensus that perdition cannot be permanent. To condemn even an unrepentant Hitler to eternal suffering, he says, "makes a demon...
Instead, I'll go with the 15-to-1 shot speed demon who finished second by a length, Barbs Delight. This colt, once bought for a meagre $2,500, fought with confirmed speed horses every step of the way to set the pace in the Derby, and he shook them off one after another. With half a mile to go, Barbs Delight passed the six furlong mark in 1 minute 10 4/5 seconds, which is faster than most horses, even good ones, manage to race when six furlongs is as far as they are going...
With all the venom of a Southern mob barring a school door to a Negro child, a handful of Northern demon strators sought last week to deny the Dartmouth College auditorium floor to George Wallace. "Wallace is a racist, Wallace is a racist!" chanted Negro undergraduates as the Alabamian tried to address the student body. Then, led by a white instructor from Colby Junior College in New London, N.H., who yelled "Get out of here! Get out of here!", the students charged the stage...