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Listeners to the Third have heard Thomas Mann speak on George Bernard Shaw; T. S. Eliot on Virgil; Joyce Cary and Henry Green on novels. Stravinsky's new opera, The Rake's Progress, was broadcast uncut from Venice, and the Third has won itself a slightly risque reputation by presenting, unabridged and unabashed, the Restoration plays and Chaucer. The Third pays somewhat more attention to time schedules than it used to, but a show will still be broadcast in its entirety even if it means running a few minutes over...
...read the diaries of Cotton Mather and those of a Civil War housewife in Montgomery, Ala. He consulted scholars and experts, from H. L. (The American Language") Mencken down to a lifer in a federal prison who told him about the real McCoy (from the real Macao-the uncut heroin smuggled in from the Portuguese island colony of Macao...
LeMay's capacity for anger has probably never been tested to its fullest: he runs himself as he flies an airplane; to spout smoke or to get off course would be inefficient. He can ignore an uncut lawn or an unpolished shoe, but will pick out an unkempt airplane across the field. "He is a single-minded 'why?' guy, an administrator of high ability, and above all a hard-shelled military realist," one of his staff said appraisingly. "And I'm damn glad he's not on Russia's side...
...better part of a century, London has been the world's diamond capital. There the British-dominated diamond cartel has held the famed "sights" at which it sells its uncut stones. Last year Britain re-exported ?35 million ($98 million) worth of diamonds, more than half of them to the U.S. But due to currency controls, the diamond merchants had to resort to sharp practices to stay in business...
...stone covered a small vault. Within were a skull and other calcified bones, 37 beads, two rings, three cut amethysts, and a large uncut diamond. Greying, spectacled Doctor Guzman grabbed the Mexican flag from a nearby chair and ran to the door of the church. With tears in her eyes she lifted the banner-high and announced proudly: "The remains of the last Emperor of the Aztecs have been found...