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...have been down among dead men and the cat knows it." Sitwell's final guess is typical: "As with human beings, so with all creatures, their god is in themselves and not in a high place in the sky . . . We, and all creatures, are left to fend for ourselves." To the reader of the slightest religious instinct, Author Sitwell's long and learned journey is about as enlightening as a snatch of nursery rhyme. And Sitwell, being a Sitwell, may have intended just that...
...happy about it." said a palace spokesman. Most everybody in Britain apparently felt the same way. When the 33-year-old Queen and her family withdrew for the weekend to bleak Balmoral Castle, Scotland, thousands of curious tourists jammed the neighborhood, and extra police were rushed to Balmoral to fend off rubbernecks...
Pampered Pachyderm. Hannibal had to fend off hostile rock throwers; Hoyte and Jumbo had only to ward off playful children, eager crowds, civic receptions, and toasts in vin d'honneur. Jumbo seemed to enjoy the march, placidly munching apples, dancing and playing the mouth organ for fascinated audiences, while trudging along at a steady pace of about 3 m.p.h. After a skittish first two nights, she got her normal nightly quota of four hours' sleep...
Blough was well aware that he had to fight a two-front war. He not only had to fend off McDonald but, like any man who has put together a grand alliance, also had to keep the other steel companies united behind him. Both Blough and McDonald knew that if one company broke from line and made a private settlement, all the others would have to follow. McDonald has scurried about in search of an opening in management's ranks, tried time and again to sit down with the heads of individual steel companies. But Blough, skilled in negotiating...
...Beauharnois lock, Elizabeth, like a suburban housewife back-seat driving a new station wagon, worried as the yacht warped close to the concrete walls. In mock alarm, she enlisted Ike's help, and each reached over the rail with both arms to help fend the 5,769-ton ship away from the abrasive concrete. When the crisis passed, Elizabeth hurried to the side of John Diefenbaker to demonstrate with thumb and forefinger how close the ship had come to scarring its paint. Above the lock Elizabeth and Philip left the ship to> escort Ike and Mamie to their waiting...