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...address he stressed the value of education as the means by which a responsible citizen can make up his mind in this country today. He stated that the present problem of the American citizen is to come to his own decisions and act on them in the terrible din of publicity. Staying educated, he said, is harder than getting educated in the first place; he termed youth the best time for education, since it is "the most receptive and least prejudiced...
...Korean national police band played its own version of The Beer Barrel Polka, while near by another band added to the din by banging vigorously on tattered drums and rusty cymbals. The Andong middle-school chorus, girls dressed up in white smocks and blue pleated skirts, boys in little white caps, blue shirts and white trousers, sang the U.S. and South Korean national anthems. Then, amid cheers, Colonel Tandy cut the ribbon, formally opened Andong's new bridge...
When they could be heard above the din of epithets, all the job holders seemed to be saying they would like Harry back. The standard theme of speech after speech was that "Sure, he has made mistakes, even as you and I" (Kerr), but that "he is as brave as he is humble." In fact, humble-with the "h" silent-was the word for Harry at Denver. It was not the word for the Democrats. Boss Jake Arvey, grinning as the Democrats chose his Chicago bailiwick for the 1952 convention, said: "This isn't a smile of victory...
...magnificent court of the Kajar Shahs (who had ruled the country for more than a century, were deposed in 1925). His father, Mirza Hedayat, was for 30 years the Shah's Finance Minister. His mother, Najmos Saltaneh, was a Kajar princess, the cousin of the Shah Nasr-ed-Din, an uxorious monarch (he had 50 wives) who hated foreigners...
...After a few trips to Europe, Nasr-ed-Din soured on Westernization. Said he: "I want men around me who do not know whether Brussels is a city or a cabbage...