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...annotations on either the myth they illustrate or the times which produced their referant images. Rather they serve to make unexpectedly immediate a story which it may seem has been literally told to death. Not so long ago, the armband had brief life in this town as the visible emblem of a curious sort of self-election. When the disciple in Jesus make their first appearance, wearing their armbands, both they and our strike that was gain a little in dignity...
...delivery service, "It's just a fad. You stop in a gas station for gas, and the man gives you a flag." He has one on his car window and several in a cigar box on the front seat. In Detroit, a college student explained his windshield emblem: "The police like this sort of thing, and maybe, if I'm speeding and they see the flag, they won't pull me over." Cartoonist Al Capp, whose Li' l Abner comic strips have been waxing increasingly patriotic, probably speaks for the less cynical majority when he says...
...bald-eagle egg was found on the shores of Lake Superior with no shell at all-just a fragile membrane. According to University of Wisconsin Ecologist Joseph Hickey, DDT has caused a disastrous decline in the population of the bald eagle, which is the U.S. national symbol-and the emblem of next week's Apollo 11 flight. Other predators, such as the osprey and peregrine falcon, are gradually vanishing, as are the brown pelican and the extremely rare Bermuda petrel...
...chorus sang a hymn composed by Eisner, ending "O world, rejoice!" But when he tried to speak, the audience heckled Eisner off stage. Two months later he was shot to death by a youthful assassin who wanted to prove himself worthy of a new anti-Semitic political party. Its emblem was the swastika. Its members greeted one another with the cry "Heil...
...limping elder of 63 who until five years ago held a major general's commission in the Red Army and before that taught cybernetics at the elite Frunze Military Academy in Moscow. Others may wear a beard as an ensign of protest. The clean-shaven Grigorenko's emblem is a cane that he carries because of war wounds. With it, he has been known to fight off policemen and young Communists dispatched to bait him when he appears...