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Last week, in fact, thousands of hardy Americans drove to national forests in the Rocky Mountain States to cut down their own trees, for a nominal $1 fee, and haul them home for their families. In retail stores, shoppers were in an all-out buying mood, sending nationwide sales in the first week of December 20% above the previous week's figure and 7% above last year's at the same time...
...White House-for the first time in 100 years. They figure that he will press no harder than he has to for civil rights. "It's good to be a Democrat again," said Charlotte, N.C., Restaurant Owner James W. Claiborne. Yet Negroes believe that he will go all-out for a strong bill. "Johnson is a man who can talk to those Southerners in their language, but I don't think he'll sell us out," said Chicago Secretary Marian Gaide...
...blood-colored movies and in the flesh, Dr. Norman A. Christensen of the Mayo Clinic urged his colleagues at the A.M.A. to embark on a crusade. What he wants is nothing less than an all-out campaign to eradicate tetanus in the U.S. by having every man, woman and child immunized with toxoid and periodic booster shots...
...Hill and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue came to a climax with F.D.R.'s veto, over the desperate pleas of Democratic Senate Leader Alben W. Barkley, of a 1944 tax bill. Barkley's one-vote election as majority leader over Mississippi's Pat Harrison had come only with the all-out help of the Administration, and he had felt obligated ever since. But this was too much. Barkley resigned from his leadership post in a highly emotional Senate moment. Senate Democrats promptly caucused and unanimously re-elected Barkley-now, they thought, a free man. Drury recalls...
...back on any level appropriate to any attack. If the Russians were to stage various "incidents" at Berlin or even tried to seize some West German territory with conventional force, argue American strategists, the U.S. should not be forced to choose between doing nothing or starting an all-out nuclear...