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...purser went to work, pointed out the escape hatches, explained the ditching procedure (fasten safety belts securely, rest head on pillow on the knees, cross wrists behind legs, grasp each ankle from the front). Passengers discarded their shoes (the women took off stockings so they would not slip if they had to walk on a wing), got rid of sharp objects (e.g., fountain pens, tie clasps), shouldered their way into life jackets. One woman tore the crucifix from her rosary, kept the beads...
...there anyone else," the chairman asked, "that wants to be heard?" One more did-Editor T. C. Merchant Jr. of the Madison Enterprise-Recorder. Said he, reading carefully from a slip of paper: "A physician greater than Deborah Coggins was once criticized for eating with tax collectors and sinners. I am not attempting to make any irreverent comparisons, but I sincerely believe that if you fire this girl today for the reason you have in mind, you will be doing an evil and unjust act, the memory of which will follow you to your graves...
...properly secured and guaranteed, to free transit through this international waterway." It was an almost typical beginning for a debate on the world's most serious grievances. But it quickly became clear that the desire of most, if not all, was to get done with the oratory and slip into a closed room where the foreign ministers could negotiate directly. Ostensible terms for the negotiations were set out in a resolution introduced by the British and French, calling for Egypt's acceptance of last August's 18-nation plan for international operation of the canal. But that...
...Puff, another aspiring author named Fret, played by Marc Brugnoni, and a gentleman-about-town called Sneer, portrayed by Robert Jordan, needle each other with polished skill. But Thomas Teal, as a horse-faced and impassive servant, all but steals the scene as the helps his master ceremoniously slip on a corset...
...quiet, undramatic way, has beaten every effort of the U.A.W. to dislodge him from municipal office. He should be able to cut significantly into Williams' all-important Wayne County margin. But between the cup and the lip, only hard G.O.P. organization work, says Feikens, can prevent a slip like the fiasco of 1954, when Williams won by 253,000 votes over Republican Donald Leonard. "If we're going to get down on the mat with these guys," says John Feikens, "we can no longer afford part-time politics...