Word: handiworks
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...battles, however, was in California. Because population in ten years had increased by a whopping 48.5%, the state gained eight additional House seats, the largest pickup of any single state. In control of the legislature for the first time in seventy years. California Democrats lovingly reworked boundary lines. Their handiwork ensures that all eight additional seats will probably be filled by Democrats. So will three other, normally Republican, districts, where lines were re-formed to include decisive numbers of Democrats. California Republicans, who worked much the same gerrymander ten years ago when they dominated the legislature, could only howl...
...fascinated the public that in those early years audiences sat for whole evenings in stunned silence listening to the tinfoil phonograph crow like a cock, bark like a dog or babble in foreign tongues. Later, the German Pianist-Conductor Hans von Bulow was so moved by Edison's handiwork that when he heard a recording of himself playing a Chopin mazurka, he fainted dead away. In the early days Columbia slipped commercials in between the musical selections on its cylinders, forcing the listener who bought the Chirp, Chirp polka to endure a sales pitch for men's overcoats...
...very old story of the most indestructible of Greeks. Odysseus was a very Greek hero, "formidable for guile in peace and war," "the great tactician,'' "skilled in all ways of contending," "all craft and gall," admired as much for his divinely inspired chicanery as for his handiwork with spear, bow or tiller. Although favored by Pallas Athena, he was not a superhuman figure but a very mortal man, in his own words as rendered by Fitzgerald...
...Chat on the Phone. With the Russians happily surveying their handiwork, Adlai Stevenson decided that still tougher words were needed if Moscow was to get the point. That afternoon he picked up a phone in a small office high in the U.N.'s glass and steel skyscraper, got through quickly to the White House. "Mr. President, it's time for you to get tough," said Stevenson to John F. Kennedy. "I recommend that at your news conference this evening, you tell the U.S. people and the world that we are ready to oppose any unilateral intervention...
...fever that stirred the howling rioters last June in Japan was in large part the handiwork of the Japanese press with its sustained attacks upon Premier Nobusuke Kishi and the U.S.-Japanese security treaty. But when it was suggested that the press, conservatively owned but heavily infiltrated by leftists, had played a major part in keeping President Eisenhower out of Japan and bringing down Kishi, Japanese publishers angrily denied all. It remained, last week, for Japan's leftist journalists themselves to take credit where credit seemed...