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...Idiots Can Vote." Herself a mother (of two) and grandmother (of one), Mrs. Littledale earned her blue pencil by starting as a cub reporter. Fresh from Smith College, she went to work on Oswald Garrison Villard's old New York Evening Post, and became its woman's-suffrage editor: "It was wonderful, just what I wanted to do." It was so wonderful that she became the suffragettes' pressagent, once paraded down Fifth Avenue with a sign which said "Insane and Idiots Can Vote. Why Can't I?" Later she joined Good Housekeeping, became its World...
...they admitted that their troops had carried "illegal arms in violation of our agreement . . ." and promised that there would "be no recurrence of such incidents . . ." Concluded the Red reply: "In order that the cease-fire negotiations will not be affected by such minor 'matters, we have ordered our garrison troops in the Kaesong neutral zone to adhere strictly to the agreement...
...recently, there was a dull boom in the east; the warning did not save San Pedro. Minutes later, a uniformed column approached the village. "Don't shoot!" cried one marcher. "We're the army." By the time San Pedro's police garrison of 18 realized that the column was made up of some 50 bandits in stolen army uniforms, it was too late. "Surrender or die!" the bandits roared, and with one brief heavy volley, they dispersed the defenders. Two hundred more bandits, not uniformed, but in close formation, poured into the town, shouting, "Long live...
...that sword of the spirit which is the Word of God." Evangelicals, in their turn, "must recognize the need for due order and authority within the Church. They must recapture the reality of the supernatural in the sacraments . . . With the common enemy at the gate, how criminal that the garrison should be divided by labels which in reality are . . . but obverse and reverse of the one saving truth...
...bigger one. Stores still bulge with everything from aluminum ski poles at $7.95 a pair to metal-hulled cabin cruisers at $5,500 each. Most corporate profits are at record-breaking levels or close to it. So are prices-and so too are wages. Instead of becoming a garrison state, the U.S. could tell itself-for the moment, at least -that it had never had it so good...