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...knew every taunt, dig, threat and underhand device of the bigots." Robinson once said of Rickey. "He shouted their damnable curses at me, then pulled up sharply. 'Can you take it?"' Rickey asked him. "'Can you take it without fighting back...
...South: "During my stay I met a North Vietnamese journalist just returned from Quang Tri. 'We lost fewer soldiers than you think,' he said. 'In North Korea, the Chinese could send wave upon wave of soldiers into a battle, but we must be economical. We dig deep. The bombs don't hurt us as much as you think...
...didn't marry a King, I married a professor," the late Queen Louise of Sweden once remarked about her husband's lifelong search for archaeological treasures. Now 89, King Gustaf VI Adolf still enjoys an annual exploration in Italy. His latest dig is at Viterbo, 50 miles north of Rome, where His Majesty donned a jaunty hat, seized pick and chisel, and set forth to unearth the secrets of an Etruscan burial ground...
...Utilization of Atomic Energy -comparable to the AEC in the U.S. -seemed surprised that America had largely backed off from Plowshare, the program to use atomic explosions for peaceful purposes. The Soviets, by contrast, are ambitiously experimenting with nuclear explosives to quarry mineral, oil and natural gas deposits, to dig out giant water basins and even to carve new river channels to divert excess water into the Caspian Sea, which is slowly drying...
...often as not, they are to be found in ghetto child-care centers, rehabilitation centers and senior-citizen complexes. Any out-of-office politician, or his wife, would do the same, but Eleanor draws positive rather than negative conclusions from the experience. "I believe Americans are ready to dig in their heels and make this the country that they want it to be. They are looking for guidance, direction. They ask, 'Why haven't people asked something of us?' All they need is someone...