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General Ridgway, the grenades that he carries on his chest glistening in the rain, stepped to the center flagpole. After a momentary hitch caused by a wet lanyard, a huge blue U.N. banner was unfurled, dominating all the flags of nations...
...Sorter is easily upset by the weather. If the air is dry, operations may suddenly close down with a screech when a card jams; wet weather can produce the same noisy result. The others are better behaved. When something goes wrong with the Collator, it automatically stops and politely flashes little red lights...
...Like a wet snowball in the back came an announcement from customs: ?20 ($56) duty might be charged on 55 crates of snow sent from Norway for a ski-jumping contest on London's Hampstead Heath...
...good bit was bad. But Burr Miller's marble Chrysalis showed how a sensitive chisel can tease stone to life, and Saul Baizerman's Eve proved that it is also possible to hammer life into a sheet of copper. The water-colors ranged from the sweet, wet realism of Californian John Langley Howard's Coast Line to New Yorker Hans Hofmann's wholly abstract and strikingly handsome Composition...
Before the Senate Banking subcommittee investigating influence in the RFC, Director Dunham, 69, leaked excuses like a wet paper bag. But his story was the most detailed report yet of the sordid state of influence peddling, political wangling and general stockjobbing into which the once-great RFC had fallen...