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...narrow, cobbled streets of Boston were clogged with traffic. Last week, as every week, it jammed ceaselessly at downtown intersections, honking, lurching and stinking up the fine autumn mornings. Boston's first citizen, small, erect, beak-nosed Charles Francis Adams III, regarded the monster warily. He had never learned to drive a car, and at 80 had no intention of learning. Neither was he enamored of taxicabs, nor of the modern habit of leaping into one every time it rained. He liked to begin his day (after rising promptly at 6:45 in his stately house in suburban Concord...
Hermann Göring was first. Slimmed down, limply clad in a grey suit that once fitted him snugly, he strode into the courtroom at Nürnberg, flanked by two white-helmeted military policemen. He stood erect under the glaring lights, fixed headphones to his ears. British Presiding Lord Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence looked sternly down on the No. 2 Nazi and pronounced sentence: death by hanging...
...training of a paraplegic starts almost from scratch. David could not dress himself or put on braces without help, could barely sit erect. But after six weeks of push-ups and other exercises to strengthen arms, shoulders and abdominal muscles, he was ready to begin crutch work. To walk, he had to learn to swing his body by gravity, like a pendulum. But learning to walk is only part of it. For a paraplegic, getting in & out of a chair or opening a door is a major undertaking, made up of many intricate, precisely timed movements which take weeks...
While Constable Earp did his bit, the Lamar City Council and Chamber of Commerce continued to search for someone to erect two neon signs at the city limits. Said Businessman Gordon Boyer...
Many a turn-of-the-century Catholic found the Holy Father's blessing of labor unions hard to take. But as the West began to put out its lights and erect its barricades, more &. more of the hierarchy and priesthood began to study Leo's words. Even the most politically conservative could no longer ignore them when in 1931 scholarly Pius XI, in his Quadragesimo Anno, called upon the priesthood to select good Catholics for labor leadership and to undertake "intense study of social matters...