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...Idlewild, the LAV staff began preparing late snacks for the 64 passengers and the ten-man crew. Doubtless many of the travelers would grouse about the delay, but the prospects for cheerful shoulder-shrugging were better than average, because at least 25 were lively youngsters, the majority of them students at U.S. convents and prep schools, returning to Venezuela for their summer holidays. Twenty on board were Americans...
...year ended, and the Class of '31 now considered itself worldly-wise enough to make the big jump out of the lower echelons. It had been good, it reflected, but it would, doubtless, be better...
...seat of "the bottom of Georgia's backwoods." May I also point out that it is the peanut capital of the world, only 24 miles from Moultrie, the watermelon capital of the world, and only 28 miles from Thomasville, where President Eisenhower goes to shoot backwoods birds, who doubtless appreciate the honor bestowed on them...
...with its "new look" of two years ago-and the savings can be spent on other things, notably more air power, heightened missile development. In Britain, Khrushchev had grandly offered to sell the British cruisers like the one he came on. "Under modern conditions," grinned Khrushchev, doubtless reflecting the thinking of Russia's top military men, "the best thing a cruiser can be used for is to carry guests to a friendly country...
...learned it from a talking book, but Stephen finds "something in her, a simple quality of womanhood, of homely warmth," marries her and settles down to paint in slummy seclusion. "How happy he was with these simple people whom the members of his own class would doubtless have looked down upon as 'common.'" When his old girl beseeches him to return to his sorrowing father, Stephen declares ringingly: "I've broken too far away from the beliefs and-thank God-the prejudices of my class...