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Dime in Hand. The prosecution's white witnesses all sounded as if they were testifying for the defense. Leon Crocker, a domino-playing friend of Coleman's, testified that he was sitting on a bench in front of the store. He said that he heard Coleman tell Daniels that the store was closed, but that Daniels opened the door anyway-and "I heard a shot." Morrisroe, Crocker said, "made a break like he was going for the door.". Crocker solemnly avowed that in Daniels' right hand "there was a bright, shiny object that resembled a knife," while...
This belief changed man's walls. In fact, at first Le Corbusier eliminated walls. His Domino house schema used floors like open terraces connected by cantilevered stairs and supported by interior columns. No longer load-bearing, walls could become curtains of glass; interior partitions could fall where whim or esthetics wanted them. Said Léger: "Corbusier made us a present of the white wall"-the perfect neutral setting for art. He hung stairs outside to leave interiors uncluttered. He lifted buildings on stilts, or pilotis, to free pedestrian space underneath, then doubled the available ground plan by building...
Warning against the misuse of "misleading mechanical metaphors" like the Domino Theory, Bundy nonetheless parried the jabs of his questioners. He sketched a tableau of U.S. interests in South East Asia that was for the most part similar to the picture created by numerous government press releases in the past months...
...Domino theory, deterrent theory. Henry Kissinger, what is truth? "You're fighting for me," I said. "I'm safe. I don't even know what's going on over there. When I say I respect you for it I mean it. Maybe I'm just a snotty college kid, but I mean...
...first argument, the so-called "domino theory," represents logic stood on its head. Government succumb to rebellions if they are weak and unpopular. If we are concerned that Thailand, Malaysia etc., will fall to the Communists, we should attempt to make them strong, stable countries by offering large-scale economic aid and encouraging political reform. Our futile attempts to prop up backward governments in South Vietnam will not save governments in Southeast Asia, if they too are backward...