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...John P. Holloway rose to say: "When you open a highway, you cut a ribbon. When you build a building, you lay a cornerstone. In the case of a pool, the only way . . ." Thus, done with formalities, the mayor and three Boulder officials threw the triple-orbiting spaceman -trim grey suit, white shirt, striped tie and all-headlong into the water, manfully jumped in after...
After adding up the $5,574,944 in losses, the paper listed nine shows that had so far made $1,254,422 in profits. The Grey Lady's grey matter failed to execute the obvious next step and subtract the second figure from the first...
...Lincoln himself provided a color guide when in 1859 he sent an autobiographical sketch to Jesse W. Fell describing himself as "in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh weighing on an average, one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes-No other marks or brands recollected...
...shipload of British convicts who sailed somewhat less stylishly into Sydney Cove in January 1788. What has astonished officials in Whitehall and Sydney is that Britons are leaving their affluent isle for Australia in greater numbers today than at any time since 1949, when their country was at the grey nadir of postwar austerity. In the first four months of 1963, London's Australia House has received more applications for exile-made-easy than it got in all of 1962. Altogether, counting emigrants who pay their way, a record 55,000 "Pommies," as Britons are called Down Under...
...soon as Cleveland's record 129-day newspaper blackout ended last month-after carving an estimated 8% hole in the circulation of both papers-Vail got to work. He redesigned his grey editorial page, insisted on shorter editorials, and advised writers to make their point "at the front, to tell the public right off what the Plain Dealer thinks." He demanded tighter copy, claims that "as a result we have 20% more stories in the paper" Says Managing Editor Philip Porter: "The grandmother has been rejuvenated...