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...state welfare agencies. Over the years a stream of tattered urchins found their way along U.S. Highway 6, which cuts through nearby Omaha, to Boys Town. In 1938, a wind-battered waif in the movie Boys Town made the place part of American folklore. Arriving at the doorstep with an injured lad slung on his back, he announced to Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy, of course): "He ain't heavy, Father. He's m' brother...
...rickety bicycle, a man in an undershirt fixing a beat-up old car. The houses, all built together, were varying shades of brown and grey showing through worn-off coats of light green, pink, yellow--none of them very distinguishable. A woman stood on her doorstep--chatting to another woman in a faded housedress, leaning on a metal railing round the basement steps with several spokes missing. About half the way along I saw a sickly pink door, banged on it because there was no bell. A half-blind old man shuffled up to let me in, breathing out beer...
...pass on any large increase in steel prices to their customers. For General Motors, such an application would have been the third one for a price hike since Phase II began; for Ford and Chrysler, the second. None are anxious to wear out their welcome on Grayson's doorstep, and they thus began demanding relief from their suppliers...
...make credible their de-Stalinization program based on peaceful coexistence at the international level. Khrushchev's main goal in this adventure was diplomatic recognition of East Germany, hoping, as Karol argues, "to force America to accept coexistence on a world scale." A show of strength on America's doorstep would bring concessions on Russia's border, or at least so Khrushchev thought. Karol emphasizes that Khrushchev lied to make Castro believe America was ready to invade again, scaring the Cubans into accepting Russian military protection. As a result of the fiasco, Cuban-Russian relations soon deteriorated...
...TIME, Dec. 28). But why Colorado? Stephen Hess, 38, the conference chairman, explained that the site freed everyone from distractions, to say nothing of saving $180,000 in big-city hotel bills. With considerable logic, critics sensed that the Administration was trying to avoid a confrontation on its own doorstep...