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It was raining in Paris, a cold, sideways rain. The Louisianans had their new, flat, virgin passports stamped and got on their buses, which spread them around among four hotels. They were tired now. There was no whooping, no hollering. They had talked of tearing the town apart, but in...
In white America, a black man's otherness is stamped indelibly on his face. Whether he runs the 100-meter dash or runs for President, whether he orates like Martin Luther King Jr. or drawls like Stepin Fetchit, his color sets him apart. For him the American melting pot...
The station's gleaming control panel is stamped with a red and white General Electric logo. The Soviets bought the complex walls of instruments from Nuovo Pignone. An Italian firm, it also manufactures G E.-licensed turbine compressors.
Remember the humble office calendar? It was just a ho-hum piece of desk equipment, a chintzy plastic tray with 365 nondescript pages on it. But now it is being replaced by the posh and prestigious desk diary. Bound in padded leather with the owner's name or initials...
"There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting depotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the...