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...invitation to be a delegate to the Los Angeles convention in July (he will attend as an observer). "I think my district will be represented in the convention by the president of a corsetmakers' union," he said wryly. "And I might add that this is not exactly the epitaph on my political career that I had hoped for." Then he hurriedly added that he did not mean "epitaph" as it sounded. As for the rest of the field, Adlai had only kind words: "I think that any of the Democratic candidates being mentioned would beat Nixon. My own candidacy...
...doctrine of human perfectibility to which he subscribed was not yet the easy evolutionary faith of the 19th century but an everlasting challenge to be met with hard work, sound reason and unswerving virtue. In the end, he accepted fate with the engaging humility of his self-written epitaph...
...reported Murrow's voice. "And then in 5½ seconds it was all over." After that, the successful firing of another Juno three months later was an anticlimax for the film. But from drawing board until a Juno actually got into orbit. Biography was a blunt and forceful epitaph for the Army's career in space. The week before Missile went on the air, reported Murrow, the President transferred Juno's creators and all their future projects to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
...Battle of Surigao Strait was the last time the historic battle line formation was to be used in naval warfare, and Naval Historian Samuel Eliot Morison writes its epitaph: "One can imagine the ghosts of all great admirals from Raleigh to Jellicoe standing at attention as Battle Line went into oblivion...
...legations. There, a thin line of 43 French and Italian bluejackets commanded by French Naval Lieutenant Paul Henry. 23. saved 3,400 refugees from death for eight weeks. Henry, the one authentic hero of the entire rebellion, died in the fighting, but left behind a fighting man's epitaph. Fleming recites the simple facts of his day-to-day log: "July 9: cartridges fired, 54; remaining 7357. July 10: cartridges fired, 124; remaining, 7233." During one attack, Lieut. Henry's men fired 58 rounds -and counted 47 Chinese casualties...