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...breakup so early. Parkas, mukluks, beaver caps and sealskin coats were thankfully stored away. The ice was gone from the Yukon River, and from the Porcupine, the Koyukuk and the Selawick. Out to Woodchopper, to Steel Creek, Poorman and a hundred other placer gold camps, packed the glint-eyed prospectors in search of a glint in the sand and gravel. In the villages of the Panhandle in the southeast, the red salmonberry blossoms fluttered, and the Indians spun out to gather wild celery and Indian rhubarb, came home for feasts of delicate herring eggs (cooked in seal oil, garnished with...
...Charles Sylvanus Rhyne, at 45 the youngest president in the 80-year history of the A.B.A., talks about Law Day, he loses the leisurely North Carolina cadence of his speech; his brown eyes glint behind plastic-rimmed glasses; he clenches his fist, and his knuckles turn white. Law Day is, essentially, the expression of his feeling for the law. And the law has all the deeper meaning to Lawyer Rhyne because he became a man of law the hard...
...believe in a strong executive," said T.R. "I believe in power; but I believe that responsibility should go with power." Above all else, it was T.R.'s presidential presence-the glint behind spectacles, the mustache, the teeth, the granite jaw, the Gatling-gun voice-that rallied his dispirited countrymen behind his challenging precepts of freedom through order and venture and pride...
...France every Thursday night some 2,500,000 people forgo their Sagan, their cinema and other well-known Gallic pastimes to watch a new-style quiz show called Tetes et Jambes, literally "Heads and Legs" but loosely translated "Brains and Brawn." On Brains, the glint of gold is only incidental to the visual gimmicks and the sheer fun of watching the nation's top musclemen come to the aid of the IBMinded. To take home his cut of a $5,600 jackpot, Brain must correctly answer a series of questions spread over four weeks. If he misses, the scene...
...Rome last week a taut, red-faced man with an angry glint in his eye called in New York Times Correspondent Paul Hofmann and unburdened himself of a bitter complaint. "The Americans," said he, "have done a nasty thing to Italy in Libya...