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...Atlantic. Finally, at 73, "too old to write another serious history book," spindly, white-haired George Trevelyan wrote a little history of himself. By last week, from his brief Autobiography and Other Essays, now on British book counters, readers could learn just what makes a renowned historian tick...
...summer Sula Valley cattlemen had burned extra candles to the Virgin, and had spoken bluntly to their patron saint. Such measures had once been credited with bringing 100 inches of rain a year, but since January only five inches had fallen. Shoulder-high grass turned brown, and the scrawny, tick-infested cattle fell dead of starvation...
...opposition tickets. A 210-lb. former tackle at Villanova, Witkowski lunged for the box, grabbed it. "I drew it fairly," shouted Clerk Rosengard. "I swear on my family." Other candidates dived in, fought to get a hand on the box to see what made it tick...
Chuck says that he was scared. He says he is always scared when he flies the X-1, but no one takes him very seriously. Scared or not, he waited, watching the seconds tick round the clock...
...isobutane had not exploded. Billy lay there, like a man listening to the tick of a time bomb, as passersby, police and firemen pried, pushed and wrenched at the stubborn steel. Then suddenly, with a great, soft whoosh, flames burst from the tanks, lashed fiercely at the faces of four rescuers...