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...fractured pelvis). No one in the station was injured. And Engineer Brower-who had stuck courageously to his cab and kept his "hand upon the throttle and his eye upon the rail" until the bitter end- stepped out of the awful wreckage of the locomotive without a scratch to show for his experience...
Last week Colonial Williamsburg Inc. reported the results of 25 years' work: almost $30 million of Rockefeller money has been spent to bring the old town back to life; 82 of the crumbling buildings have been completely restored; 341 more have been built up from scratch on old foundations-and the job is far from finished. Still on the agenda: 97 projects costing another $15 million, including a reconstruction of the first theater in colonial America, with 18th century stage machinery and props...
Learning to double-lip like Kell meant learning the clarinet all over again from scratch; it brought a different set of facial muscles into play, and required a subtly different fingering technique. Benny had his old finger calluses removed by a doctor, and then buckled down, at 40, to relearning his lifework, acquiring a new set of calluses and an even more controlled technique...
Although many cardinals inherit robes from their predecessors, the new official change will mean a saving of $1,000 for a prelate who has to outfit himself from scratch. Specifically, the Pope has ordered : 1) that the fantail on both purple and red cassocks be eliminated, 2) that purple robes, which are used in time of mourning and during Lent and Advent, be made of wool instead of silk (the scarlet formal dress will continue to be made of silk), 3) that the six-yard train on the cappa magna, the long ceremonial cape which cardinals wear, be shortened...
...Each of the students has a folder in the Pontiac office, filled with clips and letters ("my heartwarming mementos"). Once in a great while, when a student seems to be taking things too easy at school, Higgins summons him home for a stern lecture ("You've got to scratch. You're not riding a gravy train"). But in all the years of his hobby, he has never had a failure. "About the only one who comes close to it," George Higgins likes to say, "is a girl who up and gets married on me-before she finishes college...