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...next to me agreed. "Can you imagine that?" he said and poked my ribs. I shrugged my shoulders. "Can you imagine that?" he repeated with greater emphasis and a harder poke. "I can't imagine that at all," I said. He smiled, "That's the old Joe Smith spirit...
...both convention cities. To harness all the new gadgetry, some 2,700 radio-TV people have already swept into the Midwest, hauling 60 tons of electronic eavesdroppers (cameras no bigger than a Cracker Jack box), Dick Tracy walkie-talkies, mini-corders, creepie-peepies and giant telescopic cranes that can poke around into hotel windows from the street. ¶ Automatic tabulating boards, flashing the changing total of delegation votes, will be superimposed on the viewer's screen so that he will not lose sight of the main convention activity. ¶ Devices for splitting screens into five segments will enable viewers...
...such limits, church leaders, e.g., Cardinals Stritch of Chicago and Mclntyre of Los Angeles, have called for more controversy in the Catholic press on public issues of the day. Said Editor Bosler to his colleagues last week: "Even the most timid of Catholic editors these days is emboldened to poke his head out of his shell and to take a look around. And high time it is, too." Added the Rev. Thurston Davis, Editor of America: "Catholics, of course, think and judge alike on matters of faith and morality. But on all other matters, usually of a social, economic...
...submarine will be specially built with a watertight chamber to hold the great missile. It will poke to the surface an instrument to tell it exactly where it is. Then, at its leisure in darkness and silence, far below wave action, it will open its missile chamber. The missile will tilt to the vertical. When all is ready, it will rise from the sea in a flood of flame and a cloud of steam...
...reverted to staidness. The Justice was born elsewhere, coming only in his College days to visit his grandmother and uncle, of whom Emerson said something to the effect that 'John Holmes has humor, while Oliver has only wit.' Boston's poet laureate returned in 1871, literally at least, to poke around the garret and compare it to "a seashore, where wrecks are thrown up and slowly go to pieces...