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Down in the fine print of almost all appropriation bills Congress customarily stipulates that anything built with public funds shall be "for public use." In 1951 Mississippi unquestioningly accepted that familiar provision along with $1,133,000 in federal funds to repair the hurricane-torn sea wall along the Gulf Coast beach stretching some 24 miles westward from Biloxi. So far as segregationist Mississippi was concerned, the "public" that could use the beach was white only...
...anxiety is surely that people get into too many situations where they do not know what people will think or do next." Ritual is not to be confused with mere ceremonial. "The rhetoric of great human speech is a ritual," says Lynch, "but I have heard it too often torn to the tatters of 'meaningful fact' by fine actors who were intent on showing that they could enter into each line and syllable and movement of the body, thus giving personality and modernity to every fact. The lines were no longer allowed to float...
Married. Russ Tamblyn, 25, film actor recently in torn thumb] and Elizabeth Kempton, 24, British show girl; he for the second time ("I think everyone should get married young and get divorced young''), she for the first; in Las Vegas...
...riddles: What caused two Lockheed Electras to come apart in the sky over Texas and Indiana, killing 97 persons? To representatives of the Air Line Pilots Association and of 13 airlines (six of them foreign) now flying 136 Electras, Lockheed gave the answer: the doomed Electras' wings were torn off by a violent wing fluttering caused by a weakness in their engine nacelles...
...common stock at $5 a share. The week Cottier s folded the stock sold for around $5, currently sells for about $25. In the novel Ridge Warren (who little resembles Collier's Chairman-President-Editor Paul Smith) has a potential million-dollar stock option himself and is constantly torn between profit and principle...