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...will be rushed by motorcycle, car and helicopter to the airport, where three pooled Canberra jets will be standing by to take off for Goose Bay, Labrador. Last week NBC and CBS representatives in Washington tried unsuccessfully to wheedle additional jets from the U.S. Air Force. Instead, NBC will load its films at Goose Bay into a souped-up PSI flown by Racing Pilot Stan Reaver. CBS, not to be outdone, will put its films into a PSI flown by Speed Pilot Joe DeBona. Both planes will race for Boston, and the films will be rushed...
...Breaking Point. In London, Drayman Joseph Howes gave up trying to persuade his rented pony Dolly to pull a heavily laden cart, unhitched her, tied her to the tailgate, pulled the load himself...
Such a work load would be more than enough for most sculptors. But Mestrovic also has another and even bigger project. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn, has asked him to decorate the fagade of its new diagnostic building, and Mestrovic has answered with a typically herculean work. To be cast in gleaming bronze, it is a straight-backed figure of a young man straining to reach the sky-28 feet from tiptoe to fingertip. Mestrovic calls the statue Man and Freedom, and into its graceful, classical pose he has poured the philosophy that guides him through his work. Says...
...defy anyone to try to carry a coffin with the position his hand is in. The handle would slip out of his fingers. And it is not even resting on his shoulder. And can't you almost hear him groaning under his burden? Just try to carry a load and see what happens to the other arm. It just doesn't drape gracefully at your side...
Churchill Cheers. "This budget moves for the first time in many years in a new direction," concluded Butler. "We can now look to a more hopeful way. We can lighten our load and liberate our energies." Encased to the last in his impenetrable Oxford-don manner, Rab Butler sat down. The Laborites sat in morose silence: he had left them few chinks to shoot at. Two or three Tories had brought along their silk toppers, the traditional thing to wave on jubilatory occasions, and now waved them with the fervor of shipwreck survivors signaling smoke on the horizon. Prime Minister...