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...Alec's Lavender Hill Mob, an' with not much 'elp neither, financially so to speak, and they're sayin' 'e's brilliant, 'e's got it made. A ruddy, stained-glass genius, that's what they called 'im. 'E's no genius, 'e's a bloody miracle worker. 'E's taken the evacuation at Dunkirk-their finest hour, like the aowl' boy said, an' the greatest military operation in the 'aowl' bloomin' 'istory of military warfare...
...dying, the other hands sit around and beat their gums about this and that, as if nothing at all unusual were going on. "I think he's dead," one of them says at last. "Dig it deep," Boss Ford replies, "so's the kyoats doan git 'im." And at the graveside he says unemotionally, "He was a good man with cattle. Allus did the best he knew how." And they throw on the dirt...
...room to operate the foot pedals. In some cases I was unable to see a safe distance through the contorted windshields. True enough, my 6 ft. 6 in. height is a contributing factor, but a comparatively short man of 6 ft. reported the same trouble. After seeing this show, Im wondering how many more years I'll have to drive my 1951 sedan...
...bans cameras from courtrooms. "I was home ill that day," recalled Colorado Supreme Court Justice O. Otto Moore. "I happened to be listening to the radio and heard Hugh Terry come on the air objecting to the ban. It was a radio editorial, the first I had ever heard." Im pressed, Justice Moore joined KLZ in the fight for a hearing before his fellow justices. As a result, Colorado's Supreme Court was the first in the U.S. to sanction radio and television coverage of court trials...
...also has earmarked $8,750,000 for foreign atomic development this year and next. But AEC grants are held to $350,000, and limited to research reactors (estimated cost: $1,000,000 to $3,000,000). Ex-Im will lend larger amounts for either research reactors or power reactors. Several non-Communist nations and U.S. manufacturers already are discussing terms with the bank, which expects to make its first loan by Christmas...