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...most hallowed shrines. On the broad green plain high above the Hudson River, where Baron von Steuben drilled minutemen 200 years ago, thousands of proud parents and nostalgic graduates will assemble this week to watch the corps of cadets pass in review: 4,400 young men in swallow-tailed gray coats, white trousers and black shakos stepping out with crisp precision while their brilliant regimental flags snap in the breeze...
...package for New York City would help Carter in stricken urban areas and a knowledgability in foreign affairs seems to run in the family. On energy, Stevenson is considered one of the best informed members of Congress. These are attributes that could bring thoughtful Democrats to swallow a Carter-Stevenson ticket...
...someone who didn't even contest in the primaries. The people have been led to believe that they have been having a hand in picking the nominee. If they are told that all that went on didn't mean anything, the people just won't swallow that." Indeed, most of the South, resentful at the rejection of one of its own, might be swept away to the G.O.P. What Carter means to his region was demonstrated when Senator Bennett Johnston, a Louisiana Democrat, remarked: "I must say I look forward to the day when we will again...
Like a ghost from the past, an ancient blue-and-silver Swallow biplane last week zipped down the runway and into a dawn sky over Pasco, Wash. About two hours and 244 miles later the tiny two-seater landed at Boise, Idaho, to a cheering crowd. The journey was a rerun of the nation's first airmail flight by an outfit (Varney Air Lines) that later became part of United Airlines, and its purpose was to mark a half-century of commercial aviation in the U.S. The milestone, however, comes at a less than auspicious time for most major...
...like opponents who can swallow you up like giant clams sucking down helpless Hawaiian pearl divers? Prince Ieukea, the Hawaiian nobleman who has given up his crown to become a big-time wrestler, can take on two Howless (Hawaiian variant of honky) at one time and turn them into bloody papua. Ieukea eventually had to be banned from the sport after he attacked Don Ho, who was in he audience in Honolulu that evening. Don Ho had called him a "tin horn sport." Ieukea dislocated Ho's shoulder before the ring police stepped in to "quiet him down...