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...little tombstone they put above him was from Vermont. They buried him in the heart of a pine forest, and yet the pine coffin was imported from Cincinnati. They buried him within touch of an iron mine, and yet the nails in his coffin and the iron in the shovel that dug his grave were imported from Pittsburgh. They buried him by the side of the best sheep-grazing country on the earth and yet the wool in the coffin bands and the coffin bands themselves were brought from the North. They buried him in a New York coat...
Smiling Irishman. The city's snow plowing, Holland said, in a rich Irish brogue, "is a disgrace to Portland. I shovel out my driveway and the city plows fill it up again. I called the city garage and told them to clean it away. The garage said, 'Billy, you're overweight. Clean it out yourself.' " The crowd roared with laughter. Billy added good-naturedly, "We can drive you out of power on that issue alone...
...longtime newsman (26 years, nine papers), 46-year-old Texan Mewhinney does not regard himself as a columnist but as a "pick & shovel newspaperman," and still spends part of his week as a rewrite man. But his vast curiosity and freewheeling pedantry make him an ideal man for Meeting All Comers. In his spare time, he reads Latin, has taught himself to play the piano and has become a self-confessed authority on arrowhead making, jazz, Government regulations, paleontology, ornithology and coon-hunting...
Fifty years ago, almost any man with a shovel, a bottle of brandy and a passion to be rich could go digging for diamonds in South Africa and hope to make his fortune. Today, most diamonds are found in mines thousands of feet underground. What is left of known diamond-bearing top soil is probed by individual diggers who average between $15 and $800 a year. Last month the vast De Beers Diamond Co. threw open to prospectors 950 acres of a farm called Nooitgedacht (Never-thought-it-would-come-true), 20 miles from Kimberley, last remaining De Beers diamond...
...nearly three months in Moscow in 1949 before returning to call on all Southeast Asia to seek liberation through "armed struggle" as part of the "forces headed by the Soviet Union." Added Dulles: "No one in his senses could assert that it is in China's interests to shovel its youth and material resources into the fiery furnace of Korean war to gain South Korea, an area which means little to China but which, since the czars, has been coveted by Russia because of its strategic value as against Japan...