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...fight, she vaguely realizes, began when she stole her brother's World War I cavalry saber. "I took his sword and humbled it," she muses, "scraped muck from mouldings, rust from behind benches, dug holes for my plants. It was too awkward for peeling potatoes." Her rebellion comes when she tries to thrust herself into the freight cars full of Jews bound for Auschwitz-to call them to the attention of fellow townsfolk, who have chosen to ignore what is going on. Böll's point: in an insane world, sanity is madness. Duly confined...
...arms deal with Russia engineered by him brought T-34 tanks, Yak fighter planes and an arsenal of small arms to Yemen, although Ahmad cried: "I don't need them-I have my sword!" He never paid for the Red hardware and was content to let it rust into uselessness. As fast as Badr brought in Egyptian teachers, Czech technicians and Yugoslav pilots and maintenance crews, Ahmad deported them. The Red Chinese built a showcase highway from the port of Hodeida to the capital, but after nine months of use, it is pot-holed and partially blocked by landslides...
...born in 1922. Though it operates in 50 states and Canada, the company has never considered moving its headquarters out of Bloomington, and all but one of its twelve directors still live in surrounding McLean County. State Farm executives have strong family ties: Board Chairman Adlai H. Rust, 70, and President Edward B. Rust, 43, are father and son, and Vice President Herbert L. Mecherle is the son of Founder George Jacob Mecherle. After World War II, when State Farm decided to decentralize its sales and claim work among 18 regional offices, it spotted most of its new branches...
...State Farm has pulled ahead again recently, last year collected $43 million more in premiums than Allstate. For 1970, State Farm has set a goal of 11 million policyholders. and to achieve it intends to increase its agent force from 8,000 to 11,000. Says President Ed Rust with a smile: "We want those seven out of eight passenger cars we still don't insure...
Moreover, the sliver-thin Marshall atolls cannot handle the mass of instrumentation that scientists use. Most of the equipment used in the last tests in 1958 has been removed or left to rust; re-use of the sites would save neither time nor money...