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Actually, however, these retreats have seldom been the sight of any game more athletic than trying to skim and digest a 400-page book in an hour. Since Moors calls its study room "the bike room" and Holmes terms its "the lounge," one is in-clined to suspect that the Cliffite is indeed sensitive about her reputation as a grind...
East of the Mississippi, Ike took everything in sight-and he helped many another Republican candidate to victory: e.g.,in Illinois, Republican Senator Everett Dirksen and G.O.P. Governor William Stratton would have been beaten had it not been for the Eisenhower coattails. It was in the Northeast that Republicans made their greatest House gains...
Physicist Witcher lost his sight when he was five years old, but blindness did not slow him down appreciably. He graduated from Georgia Tech, won a Ph.D. at Columbia. For sight he substituted an amazing ability to comprehend by ear. He grasped with ease the meaning of equations that he could not see; he designed complicated machinery without being able to draw or read a blueprint. Sighted students watched with wonderment while he worked with dangerous power tools...
...Chicago that Boston-born Louis Sullivan first saw as a fledgling draftsman of 17 was a vast expanse of gutted ruins, the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1871. Sidewalks were temporary wooden structures; pavements oozed mud. But for Sullivan it was love at first sight. He could foresee that up from the ruins would burgeon a new city...
...joint chiefs of staff in 1925, resigned the post in disgrace (1940) after Italy's abortive Albanian campaign, later was called out of retirement to replace Mussolini (July 25, 1943) as head of the shaky Italian government, signed the armistice in September, nine months later dropped out of sight when his government collapsed and was re-formed by a National Liberation Committee...