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...Handshakes a Minute. At the Washington reception the Queen shook almost 1,000 hands, sometimes at the rate of 27 a minute. Each handshake, accompanied by a "How do you do?" and sometimes a "Who are you with?", triggered hundreds of words of copy. The Queen praised the "vigor and vigilance of the American reporter," won a laugh by observing: "I am well aware that this visit has probably given you a lot of extra work...
...sympathetically in a chat with a knot of newsmen at the British embassy garden party. The reporters in the royal wake, he noted, "press and press and work all day and then, when they sit down to write it, find they have nothing .to write about." But with the vigor that Elizabeth admired, they wrote it just the same, and wrote it, and wrote it again...
...Dartmouth invaders finally capitulated, and as the band re-formed to play "Fair Harvard," about fifteen men of the Big Green salaamed towards the Crimson stands as a sign of surrender. Despite dented instruments and a tuba broken in half, the band blared fourth with its vigor undiminished...
...67th birthday the President of the U.S., two years out of a heart attack, 16 months out of major surgery for ileitis, is acting with the vigor of a man considerably younger. He is at about 172 Ibs., his football weight at West Point. His blood pressure is within normal limits. He continues to receive anticoagulants designed to prevent bloodclotting...
...would seem that Toynbee's "Challenge and Response" theory of history, has application to literary vigor. To Toynbee, a productive culture is one of moderate physical rigor, located on a strategic frontier in conflict with another culture. There is much evidence indicating that a very favorable situation for literary production and excellence occurs when a relatively homogeneous culture with definite values comes into contact with a culture, usually larger, which asserts the superiority of its values...