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...Another famous gadfly was Socrates, who said, in his Apology to the Athenians. "I ... am a sort of gadfly . . . and the State is a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life...
Wide-eyed Cinemactress Audrey Hepburn, on a grey Arab steed, bounced prettily before the cameras in Durango, Mexico. Suddenly, someone yelled "Cut." The stallion stopped, tumbled little Audrey over its head. She went off to the hospital, and doctors labored over the verdict: four cracked vertebrae, a badly sprained left foot. Bedded, she will be out of camera range for six weeks...
...makeshift cable hoist and then built a road to the top, he lugged lumber and equipment up the mountain, piece by piece, on his back. He made a model and set out to carve out of the rock mountain the figure of Crazy Horse mounted on a plunging steed. To the derisive question of the white man, "Where are your lands now?", his figure of Crazy Horse points its tragic answer with a 300-ft. arm : "My lands are where my dead lie buried." The figure has been outlined with paint (143 gallons), and is to stand in the round...
...official procession, followed by President Pusey and accompanied by various Deans of Harvard College, followed the steed into the diminutive Georgian building where the official dedication ceremonies took place...
Died. Henry Wickham Steed, 84, scholarly editor (1919-22) of the Times of London, owner and editor of the Review of Reviews (1923-30), author (The Hapsburg Monarchy, Vital Peace) and lecturer; in Wootton-by-Woodstock, England. Famed Pundit Steed joined the Times in 1896, served as foreign correspondent in European capitals, was named editor by eccentric Press Tycoon Lord Northcliffe, in an effort to boost the paper's sagging influence. A respected confidant and adviser of world statesmen. Steed predicted the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was among the first to warn of the menace of Hitler...