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...does one write about the death of a friend, a neighbor, a humanitarian, the mother of a martyr, a pillar of strength and a woman of great and quiet dignity? These phrases, though inadequate, are intended to describe the late Mrs. Alberta Williams King...
...after two years of drifting round Europe's universities as an American student prince, Lincoln Steffens, 26, disembarked at the port of New York. He was greeted by an envelope from his father, a self-made Sacramento businessman and community pillar. It contained a terminal $100, a few Polonian sentences about theory at the expense of practice, and the advice: "Stay in New York and hustle...
...special prosecutor, there were those who darkly suspected that the fix was in. Jaworski, a 68-year-old Texas Democrat who had been close to Lyndon Johnson, had quietly supported Nixon for re-election in 1972. As a highly successful $200,000-a-year trial attorney, he was a pillar of the Houston Establishment. There were unconfirmed reports that his appointment had been cleared by John Connally to make sure that he had a proper understanding of the President's predicament...
...burst to six of the first eight Crimson points on the Quakers, although the only thing standing between the sophomore All-State Michigan forward and future All-Ivy berths is a hefty dose of confidence. Jenkins has changed from a former consistency to mercurial play. Silver, the pillar of the Harvard offense for so long this year, looks to be crumbling, and the guards, save Ken Wolfe, perform spasmodically...
...clear effort to avoid the freak image, wailing for attention. Because the camera asserts its simple means, the slight twist of a wide angle lens, for instance, is able to take hold of its subject with all the more force, and draw together spaces separated by a wall or pillar into a new single sense...