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...landed in Chicago for the big day, Richard Nixon ran slam-bang into one of the biggest, loudest crowds that ever greeted a candidate. Perspiring throngs clawed and pushed at him. Nixon placards rose and spun in the humid air, confetti cascaded down from hotel rooms, and the traffic din from Lake Shore Drive fell to a whisper under the tumult in the streets. Squeezing through the tight throngs, Nixon found safety at last in his Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel suite. But it was a safety of sorts. Beneath the clamor and the cheers lay a snorting Republican rebellion that threatened...
...earlier this year. Every time Polaroid's stock moves two points, the Lands' wealth rises or falls by $1,522,000. Their stock has risen in value by $86.8 million in the last 18 months alone. The genius behind Polaroid's success, bright-eyed, boyish-looking "Din" Land, likes to spend much of his time in his lab in Cambridge, Mass., where he works endlessly on new ideas. Polaroid is now working on a two-minute color film for its camera. Land believes that, with present and planned products, Polaroid's growth prospects are excellent...
...major, began the trial by urging that it be held in secret. All ten defendants jumped up chanting "Murderers . . . You are all afraid." The court president, Colonel Rene Catherineau, ordered Alleg removed from the courtroom. At that moment, the fragile voice of a woman barely rose above the din: "I am Madame Audin," she cried. "They don't want me to speak, but I shall speak. My husband has been murdered." Said Court President Catherineau: "But Madame Au din is not accused of anything. You cannot speak." Madame Audin shouted back: "Assassins!" Then Colonel Catherineau announced: "The dignity...
Flowering Green. Long before England's Masterman had his say, Philadelphians and Bostonians were moving to the outskirts of town. Ben Franklin packed up, left Philadelphia's High Street and unpacked again at the corner of Second and Sassafras, grumbling that "the din of the Market increases upon me: and that with frequent interruptions has, I find, made me say some things twice over." And after all, as one proud New Englander says, "When Paul Revere needed help for the city of Boston, where did he go? The suburbs...
...everyone agreed with Playwright Rattigan's picture of Lawrence, but, wrote Critic T. C. W^orsely: "As one view of the enigma, this will impose itself for a long time." Rhinoceros, Avant-Gardist Eugene lonesco's new play, opened with Sir Laurence Olivier triumphing over the din-and-delirium direction of Orson Welles, lonesco's famed earlier one-acters dealt opaquely with such subjects as a girl with three noses and a man and wife who share their apartment with a growing corpse. This time the playwright almost approaches realism: everyone but the hero merely turns into...