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...choice of dress was symbolic. Later, Romney rode forth to battle, astride his trusty Rambler to engage what he considered the modern U.S. dragon: the dinosaur-like big car. For a while, Detroit regarded him as a mere windmill tilter. But as Romney began to smite the dinosaur hip and thigh, TIME chronicled his success round by round, carefully reported the rise of the small car in the U.S. Finally, the Big Three have had to pay Romney the sincerest form of flattery by bringing out their own compact cars. For the story of Bible-quoting George Romney...
...Imperial Purple. In the Far East, where the press is still quick to smite down anything that seems to smack of colonialism (and anything white men do is likely to be interpreted as colonial), newspapers were less concerned with the broad, strategic repercussions of the riots than with their ostensible cause: the acquittal by a U.S. court-martial of a G.I. charged with killing a Chinese. The extra- territorial privileges enjoyed by American citizens on Formosa are "unendurable," said Singapore's leading Chinese daily, anti-Communist Sin Chew Jit Poh. Manila's biggest paper, the Sunday Times, agreed...
...power and privilege?"* He dedicated the Democratic cause to the Greater Glory of God, invoked shades of Woodrow Wilson ("that great humanitarian and idealist") and Franklin Roosevelt ("He sat there in his wheelchair taller than his critics could stand"), called upon Americans to "rise up as one man and smite down those money-changers who have invaded and violated the people's temple of justice...
...chiefs, educators, clergymen, doctors and psychiatrists, officials of labor and veterans' organizations. To set the precedents for the new code, the committee researched back to primitive man, who automatically slaughtered all of his prisoners, and it quoted from I Samuel: "Thus saith the Lord of Hosts . . . Go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not." The committee reported the exhortations of Germanicus as his legions poured into the Rhineland: "Slay, and slay on! Do not take prisoners...
...Smite, Smoot...