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...make a clenching gesture with one fist, held so close to his side as almost to escape notice. But his expressive face does most of his gesturing for him; people rarely misunderstand Ike in a face-to-face conversation, even though, in cold transcript, his sentences sometimes balloon into syntactical confusion...
...point in his analysis of the 1929 crash does Clark mention the collapse of the huge, artificially bloated stock-market balloon nor the careful measures taken since then to prevent a repetition of this phony boom. Thus, his "complete list" of depression causes not only lacks the chief ones but is in error in the causes cited. For example, instead of being abundant, money in 1929 became so short that the call rate roseto 20%; Government spending, instead of declining, was actually up for the year. In any case, any rise or fall in Government spending would have been...
When he moved on to Alabama, Adlai Stevenson was greeted by a genuine Stevenson-in-'56 balloon. Said white-maned Governor Gordon Persons:* "If I were to attempt to tell the Democratic Party, as I am going to, whom to nominate in 1956, I would say that this great American we have here today is our All-American, and he would be the man I would build the team around...
Polling experts have warned the Council to expect a small percentage of irresponsible answers, the result of warped humor or outlook. Since the very people the Council hopes to disprove can balloon even a small percentage into a major issue, extreme care must be taken in publicizing any results...
...house only to find out that he was out of town. And last year, he unconsciously out finessed the Lampoon in the last lecture of English 170 in Sanders Theatre. As he turned to leave the platform, two punsters, clothed in black capes, threw out a smoking balloon-bomb which missed him and only managed to smoke out I. A. Richards, the next lecturer. Today, although well acclimated to Cambridge, Jones admits that, "there are still things about the undergraduate world at Harvard that I don't understand...