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...Head & Tail...
...Thomas Bulfinch (1796-1867) indeed grasped the Minotaur by the tail; most scholars since then either evade the issue or take the beast by the horns...
...young, log cabin-born Jesse Stuart, who often went coon hunting with a lantern and a volume of Robert Burns, was determined to go to college (Said a neighbor: "He's a plum fool. If he was a young'un of mine, I'd whip his tail with a hickory"). Although hiring out to farmers for 25? a day at the age of nine, and working full time from ages 11 to 15, Stuart eventually-following circus and steel mill stints-graduated from Tennessee's Lincoln Memorial University. Five years later, while teaching high school back...
...swift and sure; there was none of that heart-stopping hover of other tests when liquid-fueled monsters seemed to balance in uncertain equilibrium before they picked up the momentum of flight. This time the gleaming, 58-ft. cylinder shot straight up into the sky ahead of its lengthening tail. Three seconds after launch, its guidance system took over, turned it into the southeast. Thirty minutes later, the first Minuteman, largest solid-fueled rocket ever fired by the U.S., splashed squarely on target more than 4,000 miles down the Atlantic missile range. "Brother," murmured an awed observer, "there goes...
...working day at an office on the Gettysburg College campus. In addition, his staff of 15 maintained a five-room Washington headquarters, where mail still comes in at the rate of 1,900 pieces a day. Among last week's items: a fluffy, fly-chasing yak's tail, sent by a Himalayan guide who knew Ike's name but titled him "Big Chief All American Villages...