Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minimum High Regard. As a committee and cloakroom negotiator, Wilbur Mills has few House peers. But when all the behind-the-scenes work has been done, it remains the basic job of the House to make laws -and that can only be done on the floor, where Majority Leader John McCormack holds forth, directing the tides of legislative battle...
From the far corners of the globe this week the elite of the Marxist world converged on Moscow for the 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. Red China's Chou En-lai arrived by plane, leaving Mao and the rest of the Chinese leadership behind, obviously preoccupied. In Chou's wake moved lesser lights, ranging from East Germany's Walter Ulbricht down to James Jackson, the U.S. Communist Party's secretary for Southern and Negro affairs...
Stream of Consciousness. The man behind the show executions reacted with petulance, incomprehension, irrelevancies, inept concessions. Red-eyed from a cold and plain fatigue, Fidel Castro still tried to run the country from Floor 23 of the Havana Hilton Hotel; he roamed through crushing mobs of sycophants in his $100-a-day suite. The hero's soft, high-pitched voice ran on for 20 hours a day, scolding, demanding, refusing, laughing...
...normal times," said one of his own assistants, "but these are not normal times." The treasury was still running on a hand-to-mouth basis, collecting $2,500,000 a day in taxes, much of it in advance. One unexpected windfall: $3,270,170 in bonds and cash, left behind in a strongbox by Batista...
...drive or a chop. He is unbothered by slight deafness in one ear, and his only problem is judging the service in doubles, where the ball must land on the proper side of the white line ("So far, I've never called one wrong"). Listening peacefully behind his dark glasses, Referee Medick is table tennis' most relaxed fan. "I don't get crosseyed following the ball," he says, "and I never get a stiff neck...