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After the death of his first wife, Isaac Presler decided to abandon the shoe-manufacturing business, and in 1952 he began a new career as a sales-clerk at Macy's department store in Manhattan. He was then 56, but in his spare time he also earned a high school diploma and went on to college courses. He was 68 when he finally got his degree as a bachelor of business administration from CUNY'S Baruch College. At 74, after 18 years and an excellent record at Macy's, he finally retired and asked for his pension...
...persistent myths about actors is that they are egomaniacs. Not so. They're insecure souls who thirst for the love and reassurance of audiences who applaud with whatever wild abandon the human palm will permit...
...high pitch when the sponsor of a proposal "to end the boycott of classes" announced that his motion could be considered a "friendly amendment" to another proposal which asked "that all University students continue to strike." With overlapping definitions, it was possible for someone to maintain that we could abandon the strike while we remained on strike, and few people raised a whimper...
...Shot. Inept as the 3rd Division appeared to be, it was a model of discipline by comparison with some of the Regional and Popular Force irregulars in the area, who were little better than gun-happy mobs. South of Quang Tri city, one such mob fired away with giddy abandon for two hours at Communists holding a bridge on Highway 1. When the Communists finally broke and ran, reported TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch, "the South Vietnamese ran off after them, hooting in jubilation-until the Communists turned to fire a few sobering rounds at their pursuers. The troops stopped, then...
...past, if a new escalation against the real forces of freedom in Vietnam is perpetrated by our government. We must poise ourselves for resistance and be able to act with decisiveness and resolution. We must march and demonstrate in the streets, we must engage in civil disruption, we must abandon our complacent posturing and convince our government that it cannot wage war against the Vietnamese people and keep order in this country at the same time. And we must determine that our resistance is to be meaningful and lasting...