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...bald Louis Johnson was genial, relaxed and spruce in a brown summer suit and white shoes. The Senators, in the seventh week of the MacArthur hearing, obviously cottoned to ex-Secretary of Defense Johnson. Inquisitors and witness amiably exchanged anecdotes, often dropped into informal use of first names. Johnson ducked questions with easy bluffness that politicians understand. "Do you still beat your wife?" he countered to one loaded question. At times, he talked about himself in the third person with the air of a man watching himself from the wings of history, a faint, fond smile on his lips...
...wasted effort. Before a vote was taken, Speaker Sam Rayburn, Texas' bald epicenter of respectability, stepped gravely down from his rostrum for one of his rare appeals to the House. Rayburn said nothing flashy, but his prestige wrapped dignity around his homilies. He reminded his colleagues that they lived in dangerous times, recalled the effectiveness of the Marshall Plan and warned them that the hungry fall easy prey to Communism. "We need friends in this world today as we never needed them before," he said. "I am for ... this bill because I think it will help us from...
...couch while a parliamentary committee tried to decide how to tackle the gigantic task of taking over and running the oilfields. U.S. and British diplomats were anxiously trying to guess what was going on inside the Parliament's yellow walls, and inside Mossadeq's eagle-bald head. Sighed one Briton: "We could deal with a reliable blackguard. But how can you deal with an honest fanatic...
Professor John Lighten Synge (rhymes with ring) is a bald-domed, red-mustached Irishman whose English ancestors moved to the ould sod so long ago (1600s) that Red Hugh himself ought to forgive him their origin. For 22 years, off & on, he has taught physics and mathematics in the U.S. and Canada, long enough for his speech to lose all but a touch of brogue. But in his new book, Science-Sense and Nonsense (Norton; $2.75), he shows that he has hung on to more than his share of native wit and irreverence-qualities that made his playwright uncle, John...
...Threat Remains. Thin, bald and aging (70), the new Premier is a rich landowner who was educated in France, has an honorary LL.D. from Oxford. In a country where political skulduggery is the rule, he has remained an honest man. He is rated an able orator, often gets so worked up in his speechmaking that he faints; he is then revived and, after finishing his address, is carried out feet first...