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...talent nor the personality to be a great orator. But by the time he was halfway through his acceptance speech-much of it memorized, some of it extemporized, all of it the result of weeks of reading and scribbling-he had brought the Republican Convention to its emotional peak. Cheering, foot-stomping delegates interrupted him 74 times (v. 36 for Jack Kennedy) as he laid down his own program for the American future. Excerpts...
...dating the ocean-bottom sediments, Rosholt and Emiliani estimate that the last warm interglacial Pleistocene period extended from 100,000 B.C. to 67,000 B.C., with its temperature peak coming about 93,000 B.C. Since the oldest skull fragments of Homo sapiens (true man) are believed to date from the warmest part of the last interglacial period, this date, 93,000 B.C., can be considered the provisional birth date of the human race...
After Swirbul moved up to the presidency in 1946, the company diversified into boats, missiles and space engineering. But Swirbul's main business remained aircraft-90% for the military. Grumman's gross last year was $288,978,628-second only to the peak year...
...that remains of the Trimountain is Beacon Hill, which is now a curious mixture of artists' colonies and famous houses with distinguished residents. Another peak of the Trimountain, Mount Vernon, disappeared; it used to be just above Louisburg Square (where the carollers go on Christmas Eve) and, according to Walter Muir Whitehill, appeared on most maps "quite unequivocally. . . as Mount Whoredom." To compensate for its disappearance, Scollay Square, also just beyond aristocratic Louisburg, has acquired a new sort of outdoor night life...
Union Organizer Smith also made effective use of a little-known clause in the labor laws. The U.S. Employment Service, which supplies the critical balance of workers to valley farmers at peak season, cannot legally send workers to an employer if he is involved in a labor dispute. And Mexican braceros, who make up more than 10% of the seasonal crop pickers, cannot be hired unless there are no Americans to fill the jobs. So just at harvest time, Smith put ranchers on the spot by demanding higher pay and setting up a picket line, thus causing a "labor dispute...