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...Revolutionary War, the town council received an application for damages from John Ridgway, because "of the accident he sustained in passing the bridge, by his horse slumping through." Aware that horses never slump through sturdy bridges, a committee of private citizens decided to incorporate to build a new toll bridge across the Charles. When the bridge was completed in 1793, the Boston newspapers, with their customary conservatism, reported that "the elegance of the workmanship, and the magnitude of the undertaking, are perhaps unequalled in the history of human enterprises...
...Sebring's zigzag course had already taken a breakdown toll of cars-among them two British Aston-Martins and a Cadillac-Allard-and soon flagged down more. Fangio's Lancia went out with what the Lancia pits called ignition trouble (the word went round that it had really suffered a broken gearbox or a snapped rear axle). Midway, Taruffi's Lancia (No. 38) held the lead, but Ascari's Lancia was out with clutch trouble...
...mystical−at least eight of his 30-odd books deal with one or another aspect of mysticism. His attitude toward the world was strongly pessimistic; though he always objected to it, his nickname, "The Gloomy Dean," was well earned. Long before depression and world war had taken their toll, he predicted England's decline to a thinly populated agricultural nation of no importance; the only hope he saw for civilization was to have the Asians take over and run things on a simplified basis. Presumably, such a basis would mean hard lines for misfits. The Dean sometimes lashed...
...Marines effectively ended the cycle of revolutions, disarmed rebels and bandits in mountain warfare (the death toll: 1,500 Haitians), restored peasants to the land, improved health and sanitation, built roads. Setting up a small gendarmerie, they lifted from Haiti the crushing burden of an army that once had 6,500 general and staff officers. They trained civil servants, building a nucleus of Haitians competent to run the machinery of government. Most important, they set up rural schools, where peasants could begin to get the education they needed to compete with the elite. Such was the reputation of the Americans...
Mark Childs was not alone in the feeling. More and more political columnists have found that the pressure of solving the world's problems four, five and six days a week takes a heavy toll. "The journalistic profession," said one Washington newsman, commenting on Childs's shift, "has made the job of the columnists impossible. He has to turn out something with meaning five days a week. He can't digest events. He's a victim of inconsistency. He can really become a kind of high-class gossip monger if he's not careful...