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...tiny bells. When the uncertain light of an overcast day is trapped beneath the clouds above and the snow below, everything between fills with a thick and milky film, devoid of feature or contrast. This is a whiteout, and in it, pilots may become dizzy and nauseated as they grope blindly for a surface which can vanish even as they come in for their landing. On the ground, in a whiteout, a man cannot tell whether a dark spot ahead is a distant mountain-or a matchbook cover on the snow 50 ft. away. When he looks down...
...Church attendance zoomed beyond the rosiest hopes of churchmen. Said one minister frankly: "Some of the laggards in my congregation awake on Sunday morning, grope blindly for the Sunday paper and, unable to find it, decide that the only other profitable Sunday morning activity is a visit to church...
...Government cannot live by taxes alone, or by jobs alone or even by roads alone. Government, too, must have qualities of the spirit. Truth and justice and fairness and unselfish service are some of these. Without these qualities there is no worthwhile leadership, and we grapple and grope in a moral wilderness." A Constitutional. In that spirit, Collins pitched into the job of running the government of a state in transition. He gets up at 7 o'clock, likes to have some of his staff meet him at his home for an hour's work. "Once...
...Tues., Thurs. 7:30 p.m., NBC), is dominated by a handsome singer who manages to put the imprint of his own personality on the songs he sings. Nonetheless, it is sometimes disturbing to watch the curious expressions on the faces of even these popular singers as they grope for the right note and also try to arrange their features to" fit the varying emotions of a foolish lyric...
This is no easy trick for an extrovert-plus, but he performs it creditably. As he sings, his large bony fingers grope for confidence among the spotlight's motes, or nervously smooth the pockets of his costly dinner-suit; his gangling frame folds into the diffident attitudes of a lady companion anxious to please an exacting employer: in approaching a high note he is the schoolboy cricketer praying to hold a vital catch...