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...Yannatos had working with him a better HRO than I have heard in a long time. In prolonged soil, the brass choir and the woodwinds (especially the oboe) never faltered. Except for a little vagueness in some of the viola and bass soli, the strings sounded professional...
...Alabama and more Poles than any city except War-saw, blends sophistication and rawness as starkly as any urban center in the East or Far West. Shady suburbs surround the "crossroads of the nation" in a long are of affluence. In mid-state, a broad swathe of black top-soil has nurtured corn and conservatism for nearly a century and a half. And in the South, a barren tableau of worn-out coal fields and sleepy towns--Cairo, Illinois, is closer to Mississippi than Chicago--is punctuated only by the Negro slums of East St. Louis...
...What a snow job! But not quite deep enough to cover the footprints of socialism marching across the American soil...
...emerged in an unused shack in the yard of an apartment house at 55 Strelitzerstrasse in East Berlin. Digging in shifts around the clock, 40 ft. underground, the men were hardly able to breathe. Again and again the tunnel threatened to cave in because of Berlin's sandy soil. Several times, seepage from underground mains almost forced them to abandon the project. But they kept digging. They installed a ventilation system, used walkie-talkies to warn of the approach of Red Vopo patrols. At the West Berlin entrance to the tunnel they put up a sign that read: "Walter...
Third and youngest son of President John Quincy Adams and father of Historians Henry and Brooks, Charles Francis* was not so famous as the other Adamses; he served in Congress, ran for Vice President in 1848 on the Free Soil ticket, was Ambassador to England during the Civil War. Yet he left behind by far the longest Adams diary, to be published in 18 volumes, the first two of which...