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...skulking outside a big factory. Suddenly the virus slips into the complex living cell which, factory-like, has a definite schedule for receiving raw materials and processing them for the benefit of the whole organism. Either before or just after it slips in, the virus sheds its coat, a swatch of protein...
Three times the size of Texas, Algeria takes in a swatch of the Sahara, two broad seams of the Atlas Mountains, and a 100-mile-wide ribbon of fertile Mediterranean littoral where most of its largely Moslem population lives. Pacified, colonized, civilized through 125 years, Northern Algeria is officially a part of metropolitan France, and sends its Deputies to the Paris Parliament. Its approximately one million European settlers produce enormous quantities of the same wine and wheat that Frenchmen already produce in surfeit at home. Result: it must be subsidized from home, to the tune of some $50 million...
...fastidious soul once ordered a navy suit on the fourth floor, and asked for a swatch of material so that she could have her new Cadillac painted to match it. Another customer spent days at Bergdorf's buying piles of clothes before a trip to Europe. When she got to London, she cabled frantically that she was short of clothes. Would Bergdorf's please send her 24 more outfits, in beige, grey, black and brown? One matron delighted in buying $60 Bergdorf hats for her dachshund; another regularly bought ermine capes for her granddaughter's doll collection...
...Beverly Hills home, old William Randolph Hearst pulled the fat swatch of clippings out of a letter from a correspondent in Paris, sent them off to his editors for a quick translation. Cut from last month's Paris Le Figaro, they were the most sensational parts of the World War II memoirs of José Doussinague, Spanish diplomat, now ambassador to Chile. When Hearst read the translation, he thought he had a big beat on the rest of the U.S. press. On his orders, his papers last week splashed it across front pages from coast to coast. Screamed...
...Republican to crack the state's Democratic machine in 20 years, got wind of an alarming rumor. His Democratic lieutenant governor, scheduled to be sworn in an hour and a half ahead of the governor's inaugural, was planning (so the story went) to rush through a swatch of political appointments before Mechem could act officially. Hurriedly, Mechem took his oath in his apartment before a notary public 15 minutes after midnight, took it again twelve hours later before the chief justice of the state supreme court...