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...Quaint as it appeared, the balloon was a practical and efficient affair. Inflated with hydrogen, it was capable of lifting 800 lbs. The FBI discovered that the Japanese had obligingly printed a good deal of information on the bag. It had been completed only a few weeks before, on Oct. 31, at a Japanese factory. Japanese characters also revealed the number of hours spent in its manufacture, data regarding work shifts...
...Yale log blazes merrily in many a room these zero mornings as again a joyous Christmas season is upon us Yes, in spite of Lewis's talk on the impracticality of giving gifts, the majority of us are still ploughing through Boston's quaint little mobs to purchase them. Jim Grisham is still resolved to accept anything up to a Buick convertible. (tan with beaver upholstery and disappearing bar) without batting an eye--and the rest of us are of the same mind. So let yourself go--Merry Christmas...
Dowson was reared in the quaint, foggy, family home that stood on one of the wings of the family drydock in east London's Limehouse. Tuberculous Father Alfred Dowson was far more interested in talking with his friends, Algernon Swinburne and Robert Louis Stevenson, than in keeping "Dowson's" shipshape. Mother Annie Dowson, who was also tuberculous, nursed her lungs in retiring despondency. In winter the sickly parents took their sickly child to the Riviera. There he learned the classical Latin line that framed his work ever afterward, and discovered French literature and the way of life that...
Until last week Plouvien was just another of the quaint, peaceful villages that dot the Breton peninsula-a set pattern of small tidy houses, large untidy barns and barnyards, a few shops, a church at the crossroads. Even their names-Plouescat, Plougonven, Ploudaniel-bear the patina of time: plou is the ancient Celtic prefix for "parish...
Totem Pole--At this quaint hideout were bottom men Mat Arsulich and Dale Waddell happy about the whole. Yes, this is one nice place...