THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2019
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THE CHRONICLE — 7
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STRANGE BUT TRUE
* It was multitalented Robert
Anton Wilson -- he was, at
various times in his life, a
novelist, essayist, psychol-
ogist, editor, philosopher,
playwright and mystic -- who
made the following observa-
tion: “It only takes 20 years for
a liberal to become a conser-
vative without changing a
single idea.”
* It took between 75,000
and 80,000 workers to build
the Panama Canal, link-
ing the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans across the Isthmus
of Panama.
* When the Barbie doll was
first introduced in 1959, it was
described in The New York
Times as a “crushing bomb.”
So much for early reviews.
Since then, more than a
billion Barbies have been
sold in more than 150 coun-
tries. Mattel, the doll’s maker,
claims that more than 100
dolls are sold every minute of
every day.
(c) 2019 King Features Synd.,
Inc.
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Quote of the Week
“Even a purely moral act that
has no hope of any immediate
and visible political effect can
gradually and indirectly, over
time, gain in political signifi-
cance.”
– Vaclav Havel