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...many seasons in a row before it becomes barren," he said at the end. "I don't think Paar's half acre is completely worn out, but it has gotten a little dry lately." Yet "some day I may re-enter the lists -with a new saber neither broken nor bent-and plow up the field all over again. Come on, Leica, come on. We're going home...
...museum, designed by William Pereira, is the largest built since Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery was completed in 1941, and just getting it into place requires a miracle of engineering. It is situated on the squishy soil of the La Brea Tar Pits, where saber-toothed tigers and Jack Benny's jokes once prowled. In fact, getting the O.K. to excavate required inspection by a team of archaeologists. They found old bones, but fortunately these were plain chicken. "If they had been dinosaur," says Museum Director Richard Brown, "we'd have taken four years longer...
Mounted police moved in to signal that the demonstration was over. They were astride dapple-grey horses, the same stalwart breed that the Cossacks had used to run down street mobs with nagaika and saber in czarist days. 'Suddenly the scene dissolved into chaos, and photos taken by Western journalists provided a dramatic record of the astounding proceedings. This was. after all, the first time since June 1918 that a Moscow riot had to be put down by force. The cops let fly with whip and truncheon. Screaming "Fascists!" at the militia, the mob fought back with rocks, bricks...
...Sabers & Scandals. Traveling by plane, car, canoe, muleback and on foot, he visited every single one of Peru's 144 provinces, something no other politician could say. He promised lower food prices, farm machines, low-interest loans "for the welfare of the common man." His enemies tried to shout him down. One morning in 1957, he fought a clanging saber duel atop a Lima airport building with a Congressman who had called him a "demagogue and conscious liar" (both were slightly nicked). A year later, his wife left him for another man. and the scandal rocked Lima. Bela...
...absolutely loyal to the Empire, as only a born hero-worshiper can be," and after Sunday services Sean would accompany him to the British army barracks on Wellington Road to watch the regiment parade and "when the drums rolled and the brass shook the air, I could hear the saber clash, the hoofbeats, the rifle fire of The Dash for Khartoum, With Kitchener in the Soudan. My father would nod at us sagely and proudly. We belonged...