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...fine fettle, Aranha snapped orders to painters, rushed completion of a new five-unit air-conditioning system, supervised the refurbishing of crimson satin wall coverings and rich Aubusson rugs in the Itamaraty Palace, Brazil's Foreign Office. He conferred daily with President Vargas, with taut, ascetic U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery and with a stream of other diplomats, some of whom left the Palace with fresh paint on their coattails...
...rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which seemed to Jefferson and which seem to us inalienable, were, to Hitler and his fellows, empty words which they proposed to cancel for ever. The propositions they advanced to take the place of Jefferson's inalienable rights were these...
...reading Our Roads Are Not Passable, Hardly Jackass-able (their grievance was that neither Oregon nor California built roads to tap their rich minerals). Conceived in the spirit of what-the-hell-is-going-on-here, and dedicated to the proposition that any publicity is good, the State of Jefferson expected no long history, but its citizens hoped to get their roads...
...causes of the fall of France been described with the completeness and power of Flaubert's Sentimental Education or Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Nothing the spokesmen for democracy said was as good as their quotations from democracy's founders, from Luther to Washington and Jefferson...
...free-thinking Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia, undergraduate church attendance has nearly doubled in five years. Most significant religious development at Virginia is a series of Sunday-night lectures on theology which this autumn began its seventh successful year...