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...Dakota University's law school, there won a Rhodes scholarship. At Oxford, he took first-class honors in jurisprudence, later got his M.A. At the Union Society, Oxford's top debating forum, he made treasurer but failed to become president. "I got trapped in a three-way split between Labor and Conservatives," he says, "and what in the hell...
...road; there will be half an hour's delay. Finally we are allowed to move ahead again, and we meet the tanks heading back to the nearby fort, like fire trucks ready for the next alarm. Before us in the highway sits the ambushed truck, its cab split apart, its load a charred twist of metal, its tires still burning. Near by, with automatic rifles perched on the green mounds that separate the paddies, crouch Vietnamese guardsmen, looking out across the flat fields. Several miles away, a black plume of smoke rises, and three French planes make successive dives...
Once, though few of the present-day passengers would believe it, the tortugas ran on a fast, split-second schedule; but that was the era of spit-and-polish British management, and it did not last long. The revolutions of 1914-18 came along, and rival generals commandeered the cars for use as troop transports, armored units or mobile-gun platforms. The equipment came out of the wars beat up and battle-scarred. By that time, buslines, paralleling the trolley routes, were cutting profits so drastically that the private owners of the trolley system could not afford to replace worn...
...novelist (Fear No Evil), Hugh Massingham, even included such details as Nye Bevan's letting "off a few spirited quips about the stupidity and dishonesty of some of his colleagues," and Clement Attlee's announcing "through pipe puffs that 'I'm told this [vote] will split the party, [but I] can't help that...
...sales (i.e., deliveries of aircraft) rocketed to an all time high of $918,245,946, up 25% over 1952. Profits after taxes also were a record $20,318,178, an increase of 44% over 1952. Net earnings amounted to $12.51 per share, and Boeing announced that it would split the stock two for one. At year's end, the backlog had climbed to $2,357,000,000, and the company expects 1954 sales to top 1953. In reflecting the boom, Boeing stock climbed from...