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...after millionaires'" widows, men with elephantiasis of the reputation (huge trunks and teeny minds), authorities on gas, bishops, bestsellers, editors looking for writers, writers looking for publishers, publishers looking for dollars, existentialists, serious physicists with nuclear missions, men from the BBC who speak as though they had the Elgin marbles in their mouths, potboiling philosophers, professional Irishmen (very lepri-corny), and, I am afraid, fat poets with slim volumes...
...Swem Elgin, the doorkeeper, the three people at the door−two dark young men and an attractive woman−were just three more visitors to be admitted to the half-filled spectators' gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives. Timidly, they asked if they might go into the Ladies' Gallery and watch the Congressmen at work. "You got any cameras?" asked Elgin. The three said they had not. He motioned them through the swinging doors...
Tough Alloy. "Elgiloy," a tough, cobalt-base alloy developed by Elgin National Watch Co. and Battelle Memorial Institute for rustproof and breakproof watch springs, is now on the market. Possible uses: fountain-pen nibs, valves, dental equipment, aircraft instruments and bearings...
...Elgin's Marbles. The non-library part of the museum has, among other things, a painting by the 4th century Chinese artist Ku K'ai-chih and one of the world's best collections of Dürer woodcuts and drawings. Its antiquities from Ur and Nineveh are outstanding; its Egyptian collection includes the famed Rosetta stone. The most notable items are the Elgin Marbles, taken from the Parthenon in Athens and donated by Lord Elgin...
...Helicopter was trotting second close to the finish. Then the leader, Allwood Stable's Kimberly Kid, broke his trotting stride. Laying on the whip, Helicopter's Driver Harry Harvey strained forward in his sulky, catapulted his charge a half-length ahead across the finish line. Elgin Armstrong's vacation hunch had paid...