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While Saud spent weeks convalescing in Paris and on the Riviera, Prince Feisal was using a new broom at home. He fired all of Saud's sons and aides who held government posts, and cut royal family allowances a whopping 20%. In a series of speeches, Feisal told wide-eyed citizens: "With God's help, you and your government are going the right way. Education, medical care and social security are all completely free...
Going Dutch with a tiny admirer, Governor George Romney, 55, enjoyed himself at the annual Tulip Festival in Holland, Michigan. Before the day ended, Romney was out there in costume scrubbing the streets-and his demonstration that a new broom sweeps clean must have pleased Republicans who see the Governor as presidential timber for 1964. Soon to come on Romney's busy schedule is a speechmaking date in Washington at the National Press Club, a favorite proving ground for potential candidates...
...American hypocrisy: "The truth is that the people are living in an intellectual broom closet. In New York, you can't ask a man to go to bed with you, but if he offers you fifty dollars you're allowed...
...Heart of my heart," crooned Massachusetts' junior Senator from the middle of the dance floor. "Alouette," he began, jabbing the air with his forefinger like a President, to get everyone singing in the proper sequence. Someone struck up a limbo, and Teddy craned backward under a broom with the best of them. With or without benefit of Kennedys, it was like that in the bars all over town-conviviality rather than disorder, the young mingling easily with their elders and betters...
...sparkling meadow at the edge of Kenya's Elburgon Forest, a husky African district officer named Eliud Mahihu asked one of the 200 assembled Kikuyu tribesmen to close his eyes, then led him through the crowd with a broom handle. "He is like a blind man because he has shut his eyes," shouted Mahihu. "If you have taken an oath with the Land Freedom Army, you have shut your eyes too!" By sundown, 130 men and women had stepped forward to renounce their membership in the shadowy army. Suspected members who held back faced arrest and imprisonment...