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About once a month, Goldwater heads back home to mend a few Arizona fences and supervise the finishing touches on his dazzling new $100,000 home in Scottsdale. Tailored to the Senator's taste for gadgetry, the home boasts, among other frills, a darkroom, and a radio set that tunes him in to the Phoenix airport control tower...
...infection that this year hit New York (other big U.S. cities have their own brands): it is far worse than a cold, but not quite bad enough to make busy people stay long in bed; it deceptively lets up so that even medically expert victims think themselves on the mend, but then it strikes again...
About 60 years ago, Fioravanti said, he happened to meet two brothers named Riccardi who specialized in mending ancient pottery for Italian antique dealers. Though a tailor at the time, Fioravanti became fascinated by the business, soon had a job in the Riccardi shop. Then one day the three men got an idea: If they could mend ancient works of art, why could they not also create them from scratch...
...government" the Russians claim to be supporting. Souvanna dismissed his visitors as "a pathetic bunch of clowns" and went back to his gardening. "We have been a plaything of the big powers, a doll which has been broken," he said loftily. "It is up to the big powers to mend...
...opposite might prove to be true. The Anglican and the Dutch Reformed Churches find themselves drawn together in mutual concern, as they have not been since Anglican Archbishop Joost de Blank of Capetown threatened to resign from the World Council of Churches if the Dutch Reformed Churches did not mend their racial ways. At the close of the World Council consultation, Archbishop de Blank rose and begged forgiveness from the Dutch Reformed Church men for any hurt he might previously have caused in his impassioned campaigning. Promptly and warmly they forgave him. Says Alan Paton: "The archbishop's action...