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...When the temple survived the Tokyo earthquake of 1923, a superstition arose that the tsurigane was imperishable. Then, on an autumn day in 1943, a drab-colored Japanese army truck carted the half-ton tsurigane away to be melted down, with thousands of other Buddhist temple bells, into war scrap. The bell disappeared from sight, but its memory lingered...
...various earnings. After the war, they began investing in machinery and equipment, though not the sort that most farmers would think of. From surplus Marine Corps bread-baking pans, they made racks for tools, nuts and bolts. From rolled steel sheets, they produced automatic watering troughs, and from big scrap oil pipes, they turned out portable cattle shelters. The boys have made everything from children's glider swings to an 18-ft. "tillpack" to break up clods of earth before planting. For seven years straight, they have won 90% of the mechanics' prize money at the Kern County...
Powell lost more than the tussle: his amendment was defeated in the committee, which went on to approve the school-construction bill. After the scrap, both men tut-tutted the whole affair. Said Powell: "Cleve Bailey and I smoke cigars together." Said Bailey: "The whole thing never happened." As Bailey made the denial, he showed reporters a half-inch cut on his right wrist, his only wound in the fight...
...seemed to have any answers. "How is it," he asked, "that the same youngsters who flunk shop courses are able to 'soup up' old jalopies with hand-tooled carburetors? And why are boys failures at making book ends but successes in crafting zip guns out of scrap...
...approaches the four-power talks at the summit, Eisenhower is ready to enter into any honorable negotiation, but he has made it clear that he has no intention of negotiating away territory, of trading away Formosa or Germany, to gain a Communist signature on a scrap of paper. He proposes to operate from a position of strength, in cooperation with other nations of the free world. "Only strength can cooperate," he told a New Hampshire crowd last week. "Weakness cannot cooperate; it can only...