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The stringers stamped their feet as they got up to leave. It gets cold at Soldiers Field around 6:30.
Except for the steel skeleton, almost the entire building is aluminum. Stamped aluminum panels cover the girders; there are aluminum partitions, woven-aluminum lighting fixtures, aluminum wires to carry the electricity, bright-colored aluminum strips for the roof terraces. ("Who knows?" muses Harrison. "Maybe someday we'll have cities...
On his regular rounds through Meriden, Conn, one day last year, Junk Dealer Chester Orsini, 29, stopped by to do business at the home of Barber John Cantarini, who was just moving out of his house. Orsini plunked down $10 for a heap of rags and old mattresses; then he...
The Communists hoped to squeeze satellite Germany tight into a straitjacket stamped with the words "democratic centralism." The five historic states were replaced by 14 administrative districts. After the East German "People's Chamber" in Berlin obediently ratified the plan, the parliaments of the five provinces solemnly voted themselves...
To Barkley this was a high-handed, impetuous insult to the Democratic majority. Solemnly he rose at his front-row desk in the Senate and, in a low and sometimes choking voice, told off Franklin Roosevelt for "his effort to belittle and discredit Congress." He concluded: "Mr. President, let me...