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...Hospital, where Goldberg was visiting his ailing mother-in-law, and finally made the offer. Goldberg hedged, told the President that he did not think he was the best man for the job; that he was not sure he should leave the court. Johnson asked him to consider it overnight, and the next morning the President phoned again...
...Chez de Stape, then Paris' leading fashion jeweler, Lalique began experimenting with enamels, transforming glass with oxides in his own kitchen. In mounting stones, he turned from semiprecious tortoise shell to ordinary horn because he found the color of tortoise too irregular. The innovation was an immediate success; overnight, horn became a luxury in Paris...
...perishable produce piled up on the docks. Even the most seasoned local merchants panicked. Not canny Russell Sage. At giveaway prices he snapped up three of the crippled, empty sloops, stacked them with cargoes, then settled back to wait. Sure enough, the freeze was a fluke. The ice melted overnight, and Sage sailed off for New York where he made a $50,000 killing. At 24, he operated a fleet of riverboats and a private moneylending business, was a bank director, city councilman, and creditor to two of New York's biggest Whigs: Editor Thurlow Weed and Governor William...
...acres of rolling greenery. They are not formally graded. No specific courses or credits are required. With the guidance of a faculty counselor they can map their own path toward a degree. They have social freedom as well: they can leave their white clapboard houses any evening, stay out overnight, keep liquor in their cabinets, have men in their rooms until 11 p.m. on weekends...
...extent that usually amazes foreigners, the gasoline station has become an integral and jarring part of the U.S. landscape. Gas stations often occupy all four corners of a busy intersection, are spaced like pickets along busy highways and spring up virtually overnight in new shopping centers and quiet suburban neighborhoods. Any thing that happens at the gas station affects each of the 95 million motorists in the land-and a lot is happening to both its look and the services it offers...