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...Chips, called back for a brief return engagement. Author Hilton leads Charles through the pangs of first love with a girl whose cockney accent is acceptable because of her large violet eyes; on through the placid joys of marriage with a vigorous woman who is killed in the blitz, and the complexities of getting to know his 17-year-old son. In the end, Charles, after a lifetime as a dark horse, is rapidly closing in on an American filly, who is too old for his son but not too young...
...City's" Duty. In a sense, Sir John is now doing the same job for Britain's ex-steel shareholders, bombed out by the Labor Party's nationalization blitz. He is seeing to it that the former owners of the steel-company properties get the first chance at rebuying them, and, where the bids are fair, sees that they get them...
...warned that the debt ceiling might have to be raised. But the Administration never faced up to asking Congress to take action until the day before the scheduled adjournment. Without consulting congressional leaders in advance, Humphrey and Budget Director Joseph Dodge, backed by Ike, decided on a last-minute blitz...
...British Medical Association to a policy which recognizes trained Freudians as the only true analysts. And it was Jones who braved Nazi cops in 1938 to bring the ailing Freud, with his wife and daughter Anna, from Vienna to England. Since he was bombed out of London during the blitz, Dr. Jones himself has become a placid countryman. He likes to look out of his windows at the rolling Sussex hills, which he calls "maternal mounds." A close student of the Oedipus-complected Hamlet, he is said to have coached Sir Laurence Olivier on the proper gestures to suggest...
Spectators and newsmen were counting on fireworks. As the hard-hitting leader of the 1949 "revolt of the admirals," Arthur Radford had opposed the building of the B-36 (as "a billion-dollar blunder") and had questioned the morality and military wisdom of "the atomic blitz." Now, across the table from him sat some of the Senate's strongest air-power advocates, among them Democrat Stuart Symington of Missouri, a Radford foe since his days as Truman's Secretary of the Air Force...