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...Economics Department could "take in its stride" the addition of one house, according to Smithies...
...climbed aboard United Air Lines flight 709 in New York last week to fly to Los Angeles and celebrate his 75th birthday. His famous stride had become a careful step, his hands looked transparent and his skin like parchment, but his back was West Point-straight, his manner commanding. When the stewardess saw that General Douglas MacArthur had not fastened his safety belt (he never does), she made the best of it and said nothing...
Three of the six flag-raisers were killed in the battle for Iwo Jima. After the battle ended, Hayes and the other two survivors were ordered back to the U.S. by President Roosevelt. They were lionized from coast to coast. Rene Gagnon and John Bradley took it in stride, but Ira Hayes, a shy and bewildered Pima Indian, found the hero's role hard to play. Increasingly, he sought escape in drinking, drifted from job to job. Fifteen months ago he was picked up in Chicago, shoeless, shaking and incoherent, and jailed for drunkenness. In 13 years...
...even potentially, a red-blooded he-man you will suffer certain physiological and psychological changes after seeing this week's film at the Brattle. With legs a trifle bowed, your stride will be longer and your weight better balanced for that tiger-like spring into action of which you are, no doubt, totally incapable. Your arms will swing free, hands near your hips for the lightning draw, and the dangerous glint in your steely eyes will warn the world that here is a real mean...
...automakers began to hit full stride last week, production climbed. At week's end the humming, clanking assembly lines of all manufacturers had rolled out 163,266 cars, chalking up the second-biggest production week in auto history...