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...practical advantages over oils are legion. Synthetic paint is cut with ordinary tap water instead of turpentine, thus has little or no smell and is nontoxic. Unlike oils, it dries in minutes and does not change color in the process. When dry, synthetic paint up to three-quarters of an inch thick bends readily without buckling or cracking, so that tomorrow's test-tube Titians may safely be rolled up for shipment...
...enemies were legion, but none were so bitter as the tribesmen of the Djebel Druze, a rugged group of hills in southern Syria, where in 1954 revolt erupted after years of discontent. Shishekly, in a four-week campaign, crushed the Druzes, hammering their mountain strongholds with tanks, planes and artillery. The powerful Druze clan of the Ghazali took some of the heaviest casualties...
Like any convocation of veterans, they compared waistlines. But it was not just an American Legion wingding. It was a Manhattan dinner for 103 of the 282 living holders of the Congressional Medal of Honor, and eulogizing them were Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley. The heroes included some famous names, such as Flying Ace Eddie Riclcenbacker, 74. But there were more like Stephen Gregg, 49, who singlehanded cleared a hill of Germans in 1944, then returned to a peacetime job as a New Jersey courtroom supervisor. They seemed delighted to be there - and reluctant to discuss the reasons why. "Hero...
...upon her bathing nude in a river. Among the good guys are O'Hara, an Irish sergeant with a heart of gold; Hobbs, a sly, tall-tale-telling frontiersman; Spie-buck, a 6-ft. 4-in. Shawnee guide; and shrewd, Lincolnesque Colonel Alex Doniphan. The bad guys are legion, ranging from scoundrelly Mexicans to brash American bullies who never learn -they always pick fights with Elaine and end up flat on their backs...
...Gaulle made no fewer than nine public appearances; with remarkable stamina for a man of 73, he visited the tomb of Simón Bolívar, spoke before members of Congress, accepted Venezuela's gold-chained Order of the Liberator, and bestowed the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor on Leoni...