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...borne version of the whistle-stop tour of fond memory (to politicians anyway). The President's manner was a throwback to the campaigner's style of 1976, as he worked some of the same territory-notably Iowa, where his earlier triumph in district caucuses gave the first hint that he would have to be taken seriously as a candidate...
...falling to pieces?and Weston and Adams are doing pictures of rocks!" Adams refused to deal with the standard subjects of post-Depression America, the breadlines, Okies, rallies and bums. When he photographed a Japanese American internment camp in California in 1943-44, the results showed not a hint of outrage. "I am ready to offer my services to any constructive government, right or left," he complained to Stieglitz, "but I do not like being expected to produce propaganda...
...their hands in Caesar's blood, and then--in slow succession again--shaking hands with Mark Antony. (This was a wonderful idea on the author's part, and is not found in the three Plutarch biographies that provided most of Shakespeare's material. The Bard may have taken a hint from Plutarch's sketch of Publicola, which contains a reference to a band of youths who murdered a man, tasted his blood and immersed their hands in his entrails...
Would Tehran's avowedly anti-Western regime honor the contracts for providing modern new industries and services signed during the Shah's long buying spree? The first strong hint came last week, and it was not encouraging-especially for U.S. firms, which hold an estimated $10 billion in Iranian orders...
That estimate could prove low, and Firestone's product liability insurance coverage could be partly invalidated if it is proved that top management knew of and covered up the defects. None of the memos and records in Washington that Beaty saw hint that Firestone ever considered stopping production. The company just kept churning out the 500 tires; they just kept failing; customers kept returning them. And company lawyers just kept defending lawsuits brought by accident victims-and their heirs...