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Just after 1 o'clock, the President strode down the middle aisle and mounted the rostrum. He flipped open his big ring notebook and began to read...
...guide was founded by Karl Baedeker, a book-dealer's son from Essen, Germany, who in 1827 published a thin booklet on the best ways & means of traveling along the Rhine. For the rest of his life, Baedeker traveled about Europe, by bicycle, on horseback and by coach, notebook in hand, eyes peeled for grandeur to praise or bedbugs to warn against. In time, Karl and his sons, who took over the business, were assisted by legions of conscientious observers combining the qualities of master spies and bons 'vivants. By the eve of World War II, the Karl...
...Cock & Bull." Before Fulton Lewis Jr. took him up, Jordan had tried to peddle his story elsewhere. Though Jordan offered a neatly written notebook as "documentation," it was turned down as farfetched and without proof in its most important points...
Pilot Claude, Copilot Lewis, their flight engineer and 15 of the Aztec's 41 passengers escaped from the white-hot pyre. When the wreckage had cooled, an American Airlines ground crewman stood sobbing as he kept count, in a little black notebook, of the bodies carried from the blackened metal. Total: 28. Three days later the heads of eleven major U.S. airlines were feted in Chicago at a luncheon (scheduled long before the crash) to honor commercial aviation's record for safety. Their statistics proved that IQ49, even including the Dallas crash, could still...
Then he turned to Communist China as calmly as he turned the pages in the looseleaf notebook before him. The department took a "serious view," he said, of the "flimsy pretext used by the local authorities" to prevent the homecoming of General Robert B. Soule, the U.S. military attache. "The U.S. Government does not countenance negotiations under duress and will not authorize its representatives in China to submit to such pressure...