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...ruptured duck," the eagle that everyone wore in his lapel to prove he'd been in it, had done his part. The awful memories of combat and carnage were bathed away in the great national wash of relief and welcome. Hardly any Americans thought much then, or even afterward, about Dresden blasted, Hamburg gone, Hiroshima and Nagasaki reduced to radioactive powder. All of those American firestorms had, of course, consumed innocent civilians. But, the ceremonies said, never mind, evil went down for the count. Ego te absolvo. You boys did what you had to do. Where were you anyway?...
...reject proposals for returning the world's money system to gold. Yale's Robert Triffin, for example, says that it is "an absurd waste of human resources to dig gold in distant corners of the earth for the sole purpose of transporting it and reburying it immediately afterward in other deep holes." Yet gold's hold on the general public remains. As Janos Fekete, the deputy head of the National Bank of Hungary, once explained at a conference of monetary experts: "There are about 300 economists who are against gold - and they might be right. Unfortunately, there...
...speakers used the campus rostrum for political oratory. One university, Fairleigh Dickinson in Rutherford, N.J., chose not to have a speaker. Instead the students called in Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, creator of bebop, and let him play his songs Ow and Groovin' High. The campus visit briefly unsettled Gillespie. Afterward the jazzman recalled with a chuckle: "I looked at my program and read, 'Commencement address: Dizzy Gillespie.' I was terrified. Everybody knows a jazz trumpeter's instrument doesn 't wake up until 10 at night." In short, as usual, through the gloom there came notes...
...distinguished guest but a pronouncement on some momentous issue, a statement for our times. Stock in this idea rose significantly when, as Bok reminded Reagan, Marshall dropped his Plan on the steps of Mem Church (although no one noticed at the time, and it was not until months afterward that the huge relief effort for Europe was dated to June 1947). Solzhenitsyn's controversial depiction of the decline of the West in 1978 drew vast attention. Though the buildup for the speaker sometimes exceeds the impact of the speech itself, the point is to latch on to some speaker...
Salvadoran detectives summoned to the Sheraton Hotel after the shootings of Hammer, Pearlman and Viera managed to find not a single witness. But an American diplomat breakfasting in the Sheraton shortly afterward asked his waitress, Teresa Torres, if she had seen anything the night of the killings. "If I did," the woman replied, "I'm afraid they would kill...