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...Herbert Marshall), a tycoon smitten with aphasia and therefore exempted from many a dull speech. Reels later, the hero's name, his wife's pretty neck, his marriage and the fine china are salvaged. Actors Peppard and Ashley, a romantic duo off screen as well as on, toil in vain to capture the thrill of it all for posterity. What they see in each other will undoubtedly outlast The Third...
...under Western Europe's highest mountain (15,781 ft.). Then they climbed into Saragat's Fiat limousine and drove from France through the mountain to the Italian town of Courmayeur. After thousands of years of wishful thinking, eight decades of frustrated planning and six hard years of toil, Europe's greatest physical barrier had been conquered...
Lindsay, meanwhile, continued the sidewalk campaigning that he is convinced will bring him victory. Said he: "I know of no other way to do it. It will be a road full of thorns, full of sweat and toil, and even tears." Behind the scenes, he searched for big-name Democrats and Liberals to run with him on a broad-based fusion ticket...
...book about covering the war in Vietnam. There are high-minded attempts to discuss American war policy, and some of them have a bearing on the current debate on or role in Southeast Asia, but they never succeed in pushing Dave Halberstam, boy reporter writing about the fun and toil of reporting, into the background...
...Some of the boys have never seen sheep and don't know what a shepherd is," he says. "Biblical allusions to them make no sense." Even the most beautiful phrases can have unhappy connotations. The boys usually laughed when Burke spoke about lilies of the field that neither toil nor spin; for them, a lily is a homosexual...