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Dick Russell did not direct the tactics that broke the bill. That was the work of Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was more interested in holding together a Democratic Party than in preserving the extreme rights of the Deep South. But Rearguard Commander Russell chose the intellectual battlefield, laid down the lines of argument, and was never dislodged by the overwhelming manpower mustered by the Republican leadership, by the Democrats' own liberals, by the brigades of Administration lawyers, or even by the President of the U.S. It was one of the notable performances of Senate history...
...employees of the United Press are charged to get the news ahead of the Associated Press, write in a style that "flames like a candelabra on a dark and muddy battlefield," and make their dispatches understandable to "the milkman in Omaha." They do not do all of these things all the time, but in 50 years of shooting for those mixed objectives, they have made the U.P. the world's second-largest and most enterprising wire-news merchant, and the shirtsleeve college for thousands of U.S. newsmen. For a profile of hardfisted, bustling U.P. on its golden anniversary...
...spike. It must be simple enough to be understood by "the milkman in Omaha,"* as an old dictum from New York once put it; at the same time, as former U.President Hugh Baillie once demanded, it is supposed to "flame like a candelabra on a dark and muddy battlefield." Between the milkman and the candelabra...
...week's end, withdrawing temporarily from the budget battlefield. Dwight Eisenhower flew to his Gettysburg farm to play host to West Germany's ancient (81) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who stopped off at the farm for an informal chat before proceeding to Washington this week for serious talks on U.S.-German problems...
...this is getting to be a long speech." It was, but it was one of his most effective, and his conclusion impressed his audience: if only Americans understand, "then the sacrifice of money is not going to sound in their ears like the sacrifice of our sons on the battlefield. That is what we are trying to prevent . . . Let's not throw away the engines of this ship of state...