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...Clark grew up in the shadow of the Capitol, while his father. Bennett Champ Clark, was two-term Senator from Missouri, later judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. For a rare professional view of a Congressman fulfilling his constitutional function (and Champ Clark's 31st TIME cover story), see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Meeting the People...
...make any substantial savings from being President," said Herbert Clark Hoover, noting with approval that Dwight Eisenhower had signed a bill creating an annual $25,000 pension for ex-Presidents. "My situation differs from other, and probably future, former Presidents," explained the 31st U.S. President. "America provided me with an education, including a profession [mining engineer], I practiced that profession in years when there was no income tax or only a small amount. I was able to save a competence.* I have considered that I have a great debt to my country for the opportunities it has given me. Therefore...
...former President Herbert Hoover sat down in his "comfortable monastery," a 31st-floor apartment at Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, tallied up the work of another twelvemonth in retirement. The strenuous score: 30 speeches delivered, 55,952 letters answered, 22,952 miles traveled by car and air (including a trip to the Brussels' Fair), one hefty book (The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson) published. Working ten to twelve hours daily seven days a week, backed up by four busy secretaries and a research assistant, Hoover even mixed business with a favorite recreation, trolling for the bait-shy Florida bonefish...
From the underbrush of words that everyone knows but not everyone can spell (weird, harass), the 31st Annual National Spelling Bee had progressed to the dark, scary forest of such growths as distichous, objurgation, ephelis, abatis and coulisse, that few can spell and few, least of all the handful of youngsters still competing in the ballroom of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, can translate into everyday English. In the second day and the 19th round of the spelldown, 13-year-old Betty Morgan, whose horn-blowing, flag-waving claque from Washington's St. Thomas Apostle School had cheered...
...31st and last parabolic curve of the morning, Brett approached Veteran Stallings' record of 43 seconds: he maintained a state of negligible gravity for 40 seconds, of which I would testify that 27 seconds were true zero gravity. As closely as Brett and I could figure, we had floated virtually weightless for seven minutes and in true zero gravity for five. From our two-man, 2½-hour survey, we could obviously not make even tentative assumptions about possibly grave long-term effects (over days, weeks or months) of weightlessness on the human circulatory and respiratory systems. But these...