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...under Cyrus. As soon as he succeeded to his father's throne, the fledgling King whose "close-cropped hair was tawny as a lion's" threw off the yoke of the luxury-loving Medes, but tolerantly let Astyages live out his life in a pleasant alcoholic haze. When fabulously rich Croesus of Lydia rashly decided to march against the upstart, he did so on the ambiguous advice of an oracle: "If you cross the river Halys, you will destroy a great empire." The empire Croesus destroyed was his own. but he too found himself quite content to serve...
...never walk alone." In a hurricane, he could unerringly find the calm center: in 1943, when wartime headlines were black with death on coral beaches, Oklahoma! opened on Broadway, and Hammerstein's words carried across the world the picture of a beautiful morning, "a bright golden haze on the meadow." Just then, many people everywhere were grateful for the reminder that such a thing existed. In a slicker mood, he could be both cute and funny. As the Hammerstein June busts out all over...
...lose their flowers. Their leaves fall. Their bare branches stretch up to the sky begging for water . . . The sun goes on, day after day, from east to west, scorching relentlessly. The earth cracks up and deep fissures open their gaping mouths; but there is no water-only the shimmering haze at noon making mirage lakes of quicksilver . . . The sun makes an ally of the breeze. It heats the air till it becomes the loo and then sends it on its errand. Even in the intense heat, the loo's warm caresses are sensuous and pleasant. It brings...
Through the Haze. At the President's Camp David mountain retreat in Maryland last week, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and President Eisenhower discussed the Soviet proposal over the course of two days, agreed on a joint statement accepting a "voluntary moratorium" on below-threshold tests-provided that Russia enter into a treaty banning detectable tests under an adequate inspection system, and agree to a "coordinated research program" for improving detection techniques...
Cutting through the haze of passion that has often obscured the facts on both sides of the test-ban debate, the Administration had arrived at the conclusion that 1) a test-ban treaty would be well worth while if it made possible eventual progress toward controlled disarmament; and 2) Russia would probably not risk trying to cheat an inspected test ban, and-most important-could not gain any really decisive advantage even if it did cheat...