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Dainty Step. In Algiers, a crowd of European demonstrators marched down the Rue d'Isly, defiantly chorusing the stirring S.A.O. anthem, Chant des Afri cains. Facing them was a line of 30 young, battle-weary French soldiers, ten of them Moslems. Shots rang out from a corner balcony, and a soldier dropped to the street. Instantly, the others emptied their machine pistols at the marchers...
...hearing was uncertain, and the shock of hair that tumbled down his forehead and over one eye was as white as the first snow of December. Last month he was 88. But the familiar slightly husky tone still rang in the old man's voice as he talked about his recent sickness and his new slim volume of poems, In the Clearing, his first collection of new work to be published in 15 years...
...lent to the Hartford ministry a generation before, Twichell sought the approval of his congregation through demonstrations of manliness, not of mind. He was a forceful speaker and an exuberant athlete, and whenever the males in his flock got together for smoking-room humor, Joe Twichell's hearty laugh rang loud and clear. Asylum Hill loved him, especially Mark Twain, who was Twichell's best friend for forty years...
...pencil-sized cylinder was installed in the air-conditioning outlets. "The resulting steady whoosh raised the level of background noise and made the offices quieter-freer of distraction," said Newman. At M.I.T., when the library's noisy air blowers were turned off, students looked up whenever a phone rang or someone checked out a book...
...turns out just about what it did when Woodrow Wilson was President. All Hershey makes is chocolate bars, kisses, syrups, powders-and money. Because the great American sweet tooth seems unaffected by economic headaches, Hershey is apparently recession-proof. Last year it increased sales 4% to $177 million and rang up whopping pretax profits of $41 million. Three weeks ago, when Hershey unwrapped plans for a 5-for-1 stock split, its shares jumped 14 points to 196 in a single day's trading; last week, even after profit taking by speculators, they were still selling...