Word: galena
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...immortality by accident. Ronald Reagan is a leader of totally different temperament and tailoring, but one sometimes hears the same puzzlement over his luck and political successes. In this comparison of qualifications, acting in Hollywood is the moral equivalent of selling cordwood in St. Louis or clerking in Galena, Ill., as Grant did before...
...time, he thought, deeds done in historical time partake of the permanence of myth. In his dying hours on Mount McGregor, Grant labored to transport the Civil War, and himself, into sacred time. The war arrived there intact. Grant, however, has remained in a dusk somewhere between myth and Galena...
...observes Biographer William McFeely with mordant pragmatism, "is a way out of a leather store." Certainly it was that for Ulysses S. Grant, who was clerking in a family shop in Galena, Ill., when the Civil War ignited the U.S. Grant was 38 when the rebels fired on Fort Sumter, and he had distinguished himself only briefly as a soldier: in combat, as an eager young West Pointer in the Mexican War, and as an enterprising peacetime quartermaster who led a hapless party of California-bound travelers across the Isthmus of Panama...
...earliest portable radio was the most portable ever made, the lightest, the least expensive and completely solid state. And this was almost 60 years ago. It consisted of a galena crystal detector mounted on a necktie stickpin and had four connections, for antenna, ground and headphones...