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Peruvian sailors watching the crazy craft under construction at Callao thought the six Scandinavians must be mad. The crude raft was made of balsa logs, the longest 45 ft. long, hauled from the Ecuadorian jungles and lashed together with ropes. A crude steering oar swung astern; a big, archaic square sail drooped drunkenly from the mast, and the cabin aft was a bamboo hut thatched with banana leaves...
...last week Jacob Malik kept on stalling the Security Council with talk irrelevant to the main business on hand-the free nations' complaint against Communist aggression in Korea. In his longest diatribe of the month (with translations into English and French, it took 3 hours 23 minutes), he emptied once more his bag of big lies. Among them...
...Longest final in the so-year history of the tournament. Old record: 38 holes, in 1923, when Max Marston defeated Jess Sweetser...
...were as dull in the doing as they are in the telling. And she was a failure at most of them. After ten years at night school studying shorthand, she felt that she deserved "some kind of medal for being the slowest-witted, most-unable-to-be-taught and longest-attender-at-school-studying-one-subject." Then one day sister Mary told her to write a bestseller. Result: The Egg and I the $49.50 pumps and $100,000 from movie rights alone...
...Hope? At the next session, Warren Austin again leaned forward across the table, to deliver the longest speech of the day-more than an hour with its French interpretation. Said he: "To call [the North Korean aggressors] the representatives of the Korean people must be only a tragic witticism when addressed to those who know how quickly nationalism, patriotism and independence in other countries have been crushed to produce subservient puppet governments-zombie governments that breathe and speak and act, but have no soul.* The United Nations tried to peer through the mists that enshroud this regime. Nothing could...