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...probably accept every invitation you send me," he told them, "and I'll send you more." After he climbed back into his plane for the weary trip home, the governors settled down in a warm glow to talk shop...
...billion. This comes to $3,000,000 a day, every day, for nearly nine years. To show for this, France has all those things that the Mutual Security Agency is justifiably proud of helping rebuild: a humming industry, a well-tended countryside that, to drive through, seems to glow with prosperity. Yet Premier Laniel's government faces a deficit of more than 600 billion francs-$1.7 billion. France owes her European neighbors $824 million; her reserves of gold and foreign currency are down to $613 million-less than tiny Holland's. Things got so bad that in April...
Looby had no garage and felt that he had a right to reserve the curb space in front of his home for himself. A series of quarrels with Adams had turned Looby's concern over his parking rights into an obsession, and now, in the glow of the street light, he saw the familiar and maddening shape of the clerk's automobile before his house again. When Adams finally left the Deady porch, Looby could not contain himself. He ran down into the street muttering wildly: "Parking in front of my home-" In seconds, the two men were...
Then Dealer Ambroise Vollard began promoting him and Rouault's reputation grew. His art was growing even faster; it lost the taint of caricature and took on the glow of compassion. Religious paintings became his most important work. At first, pure torment was what they conveyed. Then slowly Rouault imbued them with infinitely weary, infinitely tender peace. The same peace flooded his harsh landscapes, and his clowns ceased to be merely pathetic; they became almost Christlike...
...mile from the end of their cable and 2,000 ft. underground,* the explorers felt the intoxicating glow of knowing that "neither paleolithic men, nor the pot-holers of today, had ever been here before us." Having gained the heart of the mountain from the top, they stood triumphant upon its base-a monumental mass of carboniferous schist. It was a moment speleologists dream about...