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Because the U. S. colonists were subject to laws passed by a far-away Parliament they drifted "toward the belief that if a law interfered with their business and profits it need not be obeyed." No more an iconoclast than a panegyrist, Adams thinks Washington saved the U. S., not by military brilliance but by force of character: "In plain truth we see now that the Revolution was only saved from being an abortive rebellion by two factors . . . one the character of Washington, and the other the marshaling against England of European powers." Many of the "best people" were Tories...
Keen was the lamentation, sonorous the drumming which last August howled from the strange Church of the Innocent Blood in a swampy outskirt of New Orleans. Mother Catherine Seal, mulatto foundress of a faith-healing Afro-Catholic cult, was dead in far-away Lexington...
...Russia. In Manhattan a host of 3,500 Protestants gathered in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to hear Bishop William Thomas Manning, guarded by three detectives, conduct a solemn service of supplication. The proceedings were similar to those which took place throughout the western world and in far-away missionary lands-a multitudinous echoing of the cry of Christ: "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." Also typical of what was happening elsewhere was a meeting, held in The Bronx soon after Bishop Manning's service, at which 12,000 Atheists and their sympathizers...
...million. Few are the Senators who slap him on the back or call him "Larry." Except when he is taking his autumn, winter or spring vacation, he can generally be found in his front-row aisle seat, his hands crossed on his stomach, a far-away look on his face. He wears grey expensive suits, $10 blended neckties. His hair is white, his waxed mustache grey. He gives the appearance of being exceedingly well cared for by valets, well fed by French chefs...
Last week famed Remington Rand Inc., alert typewriter folk of Buffalo, shipped to far-away Angora 3,000 specially made, 31-key, 100% Turkish typewriters. "To build them we had to construct entirely new dies," said Remington Rand's foreign sales director John A. Zellers. "That was what sent the total cost of this shipment up to $400,000" ($133.33 per typewriter...