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...stay out of any state which had an effective FEPC law of its own. In a speech accepting the presidential nomination of New York's Liberal Party, he continued to hammer at the civil rights theme, and went on to denounce the filibuster. Said he: "The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions . . . but no man has the right to strangle democracy with a single set of vocal cords...
...Archives contain the world's richest collection of documents about the Spanish exploration of the New World. Ever since 1778, when Charles III ordered that all letters, papers and maps concerned with the colonies be assembled in one place, scholars have been flocking to Seville. But the most tireless researcher of them all-from Washington Irving and Martin Fernández de Navarrete to Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison-has been Alice Bache Gould...
...Britain, they hunted down the graves of ancestors, drove about the Lake District, walked the streets of London with tireless energy. Outside Buckingham Palace, they stood with cameras at the ready, as if waiting for the Queen to wave to them from the windows. They toured the Tower, St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey ("Is this really the coronation throne? Kinda beat up, isn't it?"), carefully watched out for cars on the "wrong side" of the street, crowded into Dirty Dick's Fleet Street pub and the Prospect of Whitby on the Thames. Wherever Americans went...
...Panmunjom, North Korea's dapper, tireless Lieut. General Nam II returned to the truce table with a "grave warning." The Communist armies, he cried, "decidedly cannot sit by while seeing their capTured fellow combatants being slaughtered by your side at will" (see below). This sounded uncomfortably like the warnings that emanated from Red China on the eve of her massive intervention in the autumn...
Taft's long fight for the nomination has won votes-but it has also lost votes. An aggressive and "tireless campaigner is not necessarily an effective one. On TV panel programs, "Fighting Bob" sometimes gives the unfortunate impression that he wants to fight everybody about everything. In private, personal fact, Taft is not overaggressive or arrogant. He comes over that way as a result of breaking down his natural reserve to build up the "Fighting Bob" picture...