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...frantic reports of U.F.O.s-unidentified flying objects. This time, as the U.S. Air Defense Command tabulated reports (no fewer than 128), the sightings from preachers, military personnel, engineers and just plain folks were not restricted simply to flying saucers. The pronouncements seemed to shape into a sort of celestial dinner pail: the objects resembled eggs, meat platters, pears-and, for dessert, ice cream cones and cigars. ¶In the Levelland area of Texas, at least seven people sighted what may have been the same "Whatnik," a bright, egg-shaped thing that sped near by, landed, and, according to some, caused their...
...everyone knows he is being sued for taxes." Actually, both Garcia and Yulo are considered personally honest. A rarity among veteran politicians, Garcia has never been accused of enriching himself in office. Even opponents have conceded that suave, handsome Yulo is "a clean drop of water in a pail of dirty Liberal mud." Both are profoundly pro-American, but Yulo emphasizes his business experience as equipping him best to deal with the nation's teetering economy. "If you elect me, I promise to treat you as kindly as I do the laborers on my estate," he told one audience...
CAMPAIGNING on a platform of the "full dinner pail," Herbert Hoover won enough friends and influenced enough people to win his way into the White House. Now, thousands of U.S. companies are winning friends and influencing their employees by eliminating the dinner pail. In its place they are supplying something better - corporate restaurants. For the pros and cons of whether a company should assume this new corporate burden, see BUSINESS, Company Meals...
...from a soldier: "On the afternoon of Dec. 3 some gendarmes invited some soldiers to watch tortures of two Arabs arrested the night before. The first torture consisted in suspending the two men, entirely nude, by the feet, hands tied behind their backs, and plunging their heads into a pail of water for long periods to make them talk. The second torture consisted in suspending them, their hands tied to their feet behind their backs, this time with their heads up, then placing beneath them a trestle [sawhorse], and swinging them with fist blows so that their sexual organs banged...
...great 19th century ground swell of popular discontent swirled about real grievances in the U.S. rather than frothing up towards imaginary cures. Populism, which wanted cheaper money, Progressivism, which wanted cheaper everything, the Knights of Labor with their focus on the dinner pail and the dignity of those who ate from it, all expressed the aspirations of Americans who remained hard-headed even when hard up. Even "Big Bill" Haywood's I.W.W. was "practical" in its own simpleminded, bloody-minded way. Author Draper never loses sight of the fact that early capitalism cooked a brutal brew...