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...Harry Truman had appointed. If the President was leaning over backward to avoid Woodrow Wilson's great mistake-turning a cold shoulder to U.S. politicians during the peacemaking-the Senate was more than willing to copy the stance. But the debate had made it plain that a knot of young progressives would not stay quiet if they thought the success of world politics was being sacrificed to politics at home...
...crisp, 20-knot wind was blowing over Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and the sun was shining brilliantly when Lieut. Charles C. Taylor led his flight of five Navy torpedo bombers out over the Atlantic. To Instructor Taylor, combat-wise veteran of vast Pacific Ocean spaces, the routine navigation problem was simple. That was the last seen...
...loop over the beast's head, tie him to the corral fence and scramble for cover had been tempting. The nation was aching for an excuse to quit worrying about being blown up en masse. Both the President and the Army demanded immediate passage. So did an impressive knot of scientists-OSRD's Dr. Vannevar Bush, Harvard's President, Dr. James Bryant Conant and the Manhattan Project's Major General Leslie R. Groves...
...known as jarochos, have danced it for 400 years. To a jarocho, La Bamba is a studied love ritual of Spanish-Indian origin, in which the dancers start far apart and slowly move together by delicate footwork, tying a ribboned sash on the ground into a lover's knot with their feet. As they dance they sing their own improvised, often risqué and not always intelligible love lyrics...
...black limousines took Mrs. Roosevelt and her family out through the gate in a drizzling rain, headed for the Union Station. That night in Manhattan the usual knot of reporters awaited her. She spoke only four words. "The story," she said, "is over...