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Richard Nixon blundered in announcing that he would defend Quemoy and Matsu. The American people are not willing to risk the start of World War III over these two piles of rocks on the doorstep of Communist China! Berlin and Formosa, yes; Quemoy and Matsu...
...years and more, probably because he has "shy ways," but possibly -an explanation the children much prefer-because his relatives have chained him to his bed. Dill has the notion that Boo might be lured out if a trail of lemon drops were made to lead away from his doorstep. Scout and Jem try a midnight invasion instead, and this stirs up so much commotion that Jem loses his pants skittering back under the fence...
...newsmen. Long before Los Angeles, reporters discovered that Kennedy's able and imaginative aides were ever ready to accommodate a soliciting newsman with inside stories, exclusives and audiences with the leader. Said Kennedy Press Secretary Pierre Salinger: "Most of the press covered the convention by camping on my doorstep...
...soon to be named Walter Baade, was born in 1893, the universe seemed relatively small and cozy, although full of unknowns. No one knew the size of the stars, what they were made of, or where they got their energy. No one dreamed that the stars are only the doorstep of the universe. When Baade got his doctorate at the University of Gottingen in 1919, most of the mysteries still remained; but in the U.S. new telescopes, bigger and more accurate than anything in Europe, were beginning to probe the sky with new farsightedness. After earning a reputation at Hamburg...
...Tonight!, in more than 250 cities. An added measure of Mark Twain's enduring success is financial. Although he nearly always had to scramble for money, had miserable luck as an investor (he sank thousands into a futureless typesetting machine, turned young Alexander Graham Bell away from his doorstep without a cent), the author's estate last week, as reported to a Connecticut probate judge, was worth a figure approaching half a million dollars. In 1959 Mark Twain earned $57,691-mainly for his daughter Clara, now Mrs. Jacques Samossoud of San Diego, Calif...