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...There is a deep sympathy for the underdog in this match of mere man v. monstrous job," wrote TIME'S armed forces reporter last week. The monstrous job: Secretary of Defense. The mere man: Neil Hosier McElroy...
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Alfred bought coal and ore mines in Germany and Spain, built power, gas and water plants and his own fleet of ships. Above the smoke and soot of the Ruhrgebiet, overlooking his busy factories, he built Villa Hiigel, a monstrous, boxlike pile made of stone and steel because Alfred feared fire. There he entertained the royalty and dignitaries who streamed to Essen to pay tribute to his genius. When he died in 1887, the Kaiser sent a special deputy, and messages of condolence poured in from all over the world...
...around, they know they do not have to: most business sections will uncritically print all the company handouts that fit (sometimes even tacking on a staffer's byline). Says an Atlanta businessman of his home-town papers: "They print our handouts like gospel. We could send them a monstrous lie, and they'd print it without question...
...carving in jade and hard stone and burying the carvings. To judge by their figurines, they bound their babies' heads to make them abnormally highbrowed. They probably worshiped a jaguar god, or at least they carved fierce stone images of beasts half man, half jaguar. They also carved monstrous human heads nine feet high with petulant baby faces. They floored their ceremonial rooms with clay tinted red with cinnabar, and they made concave mirrors of beautifully polished stone, perhaps for the purpose of starting fires by focusing the rays...