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Spindly James Stewart gets his man and Janet Leigh to boot in M.G.M.'s brawling Technicolor western, The Naked Spur. He also meets a gold prospector, a cavalry officer, and a murderer. As if this was not enough t make him a bonfire western movie hero, Stewart more or less survives Indian attacks and avalanches...
Perkins likes his job, which he compares to boot-legging, because one meets such interesting people. "It's the best job you can have if your tastes run that way, and mine do," he explains. A lean and balding six-footer who wears glasses so he can see across the class room, Perkins has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of Harvard history and lore. But he will get up during even a casual conversation for a book to verify a name or a class, a habit which he charges, off to a historian's insistence on exactitude. Perkins' field is Eighteenth...
Also, she was smart, knew Washington and the intricacies of bureaucracy from a hitch in the U.S. Information Service, and had a flair for leadership. She helped set up the Marine Corps' first boot camp for women, at Hunter College, New York. After that she commanded a battalion, and served on the staff of the general in command at Quantico. When the war ended, she was 29 years old, a major, and was commanding 2,600 lady marines (as many as are on active duty in the whole corps today) at the Marine Air Station at Cherry Point...
...Follette had kept it-barely-within the GOP, as a billowing reform movement. And though they swept Wisconsin in 1936, the progressives never really got off the ground. The New Deal appropriated many pet La Follette dreams, e.g., collective bargaining, unemployment compensation, and took credit for them to boot. But through the '30s, Young Bob worked faithfully in alliance with the New Deal on its domes tic program (exception: he wanted a pay-as-you-go tax system). His Civil Liberties Committee barnstormed across the U.S., exposing a sordid underside of U.S. big business in the days when business...
...most tempting plums in the Republican election year grab-bag was tax reduction. Eisenhower promised progressive cuts in income taxes, natural death of the excess profits tax, and a balanced budget to boot. The money for this financial revamping was to come mainly from a reduction in the out-sized military budget...