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...poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail-its roof may shake -the wind may blow through it-the storm may enter, the rain may enter -but the King of England cannot enter-all his force dares not cross the threshold...
...each other delightedly: "Look, it's him." Last week the Senator had his four grandchildren in town to attend the hearings. One evening he took them out to dinner at a restaurant on Capitol Hill and everywhere along the way he was stopped by people who wanted to shake his hand. A fundamentally shy man, Ervin is both pleased and embarrassed by all the attention. Said twelve-year-old Bobby Ervin, establishing that a talent for home-grown simile runs in the family...
...takes catastrophe to shake her out of it. In ignorance of the law Nora had committed forgery when she faked her dying father's signature (to save him pain) on a sum of money she borrowed to pay her husband's rest cure bills. It had never occurred to her that the action might be illegal--to her it was a human duty as daughter and wife. But when Torvald discovers her crime, he is blind to its noble aspects. To him, the damage done his honor counts for more than the love that prompted it. Only when he works...
...Moscow hierarchy was a determinedly collective leadership. Brezhnev's dealings are still sharply defined within the perimeters set by the Politburo. But since the last summit, when he shared the spotlight with President Nikolai Podgorny and Premier Kosygin, he has handled the show alone. In a major Politburo shake-up in April, he dispatched two of the strongest opponents of his policies. His official job - General Secretary of the Communist Party - does not entitle him to so much prominence. (Unlike Stalin and Khrushchev, he is not also the head of state.) Acknowledging the problem, the Soviets have responded...
...reunion of Princeton's class of 1963 attracted as much buzzing attention as the pale, thin alumnus in a tan summer suit. Well-wishers from the class of 1948 stopped by to shake his hand, but conversation stopped short of his two days of Watergate testimony. Hugh ("Duke") Sloan Jr. was selling his house in Virginia and taking a job with the Budd Company, a manufacturer of transportation equipment in Philadelphia. "What was there to do?" he asked. "I would have just looked as if I was out there trying to slay dragons." Earlier in the spring, Sloan...