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...Amidst the Democratic furor, politicians and pundits took time to look across the fence and ask a question: What did Harry Truman's announcement mean to the Republicans? Bob Taft thought it made no difference in the campaign for the G.O.P. nomination. Some other political strategists thought it would force Taft to re-pitch his campaign, because Truman has been his chief target. Ike's position, in one sense, was less difficult now: he wouldn't have to run against the man who was his Commander-in-Chief...
...move a vote of no confidence against the Tories. It was Attlee in the House who was called upon to move the vote, describing Butler's proposals as "irrelevant, unnecessary and unfair"-but the language was Bevan's. Then from the crowded back benches Nye Bevan rose amidst a buzz of anticipation to show Leader Attlee how to conduct an Opposition case...
...126th's communications office operates in the only usable portion of a sag-roofed shack set amidst girders of a bombed-out hangar. Most of the wing's 48 B-26 bombers are bunched like sitting ducks on a tiny concrete apron before the hangar. One or two, not finding room on the apron, squat dismally on the open field, so deep in mire that even their propeller tips are stuck fast. Theoretically, there is a large, revetted parking area available for the planes-but a French farmer has built a solid house and two barns right...
...agreed at last to stop while medical corpsmen bandaged his wound, but as soon as their backs were turned, off he hobbled on another series of charges. "At the critical moment," says the citation, "amidst an inferno of enemy machine-gun and mortar fire . . . Speakman led a final charge to clear the crest of the hill and hold it whilst the remainder of his company withdrew." When his grenades ran out, he threw stones...
...still trim as a college oarsman, and the father of two grown sons-one a senior at Harvard, the other a reporter on the Boston Herald with two daughters of his own. They are an affectionate, companionable family, and father & sons love to get together on weekends to construct, amidst fierce debates, intricate and massive dams across the stream that flows through the Lodge property. Lodge seldom takes a drink, and quit smoking in 1946 so as "to be in the best possible condition." A man of relaxed charm, he works hard at being modest, and never refers in public...