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Last Thursday in Alabama someone shot William Moore, a white postman from Baltimore who was engaged in a one-man march through the South to protest racial segregation. Unarmed and unaccompanied, Moore provided an easy target for the Alabama marks-men. He died instantly...
...those who would rather sink than swim, Frankfurt Engineer Hanns Trippel has produced a one-man submarine which was the hit of the recent West Berlin In ternational Boat Show. Made of a glass-silk polyester, the U24 weighs only 485 Ibs., and its four six-volt batteries drive it at about five knots on the surface, slightly faster under water. The U24 can dive as deep as 98 ft., is equipped with an oxygen supply and an air-washing system that allows submersion for eight hours at a time. Dealer Erich Mylius of Hamburg reports more than 500 orders...
Like many durable dictators, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito preserves his one-man rule by the simple expedient of holding down the key jobs himself. He is Secretary-General of the Communist Party, supreme commander of the armed forces, and chief of state. As if that were not enough, Belgrade's complaisant Federal People's Republic unanimously approved a new national constitution last week giving Tito the presidency for life...
...Kerciu adopted the style of Manhattan Artists Jasper Johns and Larry Rivers, who are fascinated by flags and labels. Kerciu painted a big Confederate flag and plastered it with the slogans of the riots: "Impeach JFK." "Would you want your sister to marry one?" "[Scratched-out word] the NAACP." He hung the painting in a one-man show at the university's Fine Arts Center...
...dictionary was a prodigious ("amazing, astonishing, portentous, enormous") feat, a one-man job ("a low word now much in use") comprising 2,300 folio pages of definitions and examples accomplished in nine years (from 1746 to 1755), with the help of only six copyists. Only a fopdoodle ("a fool") or a slubberdegullion ("a paltry, dirty, sorry wretch") would deny the greatness of the work, and only one who had carried it out had the right to define a lexicographer (as Johnson did in the dictionary) as "a harmless drudge." Privately, he was not so humble. As he told his Boswell...