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...pundits to succeed him was popular Secretary of State Jim Hare, who had led the Democratic ticket in 1958. But Hare was known as an independent-thinking cuss. The unions, in a spectacular exercise of political muscle, swung behind Swainson. On primary day, 70,000 Wayne County Democrats cast "bullet" votes for Swainson; i.e., they did not even bother to vote for the other 16 contested offices on the ballot. Swainson's statewide margin of victory: just under...
...statehouse officials are regularly asked about Vermont's Ceres, who is called "that Indian," "that Green Mountain boy," or simply "that woman." Two years ago the body of Atlanta's poor Miss Freedom (alias Miss Justice, Miss Equality and Miss Liberty) was found to be riddled with bullet holes. The winged female in Phoenix. Ariz, has also had a hard time. Known to some as the Whirling Dervish or Biddy, she has no official name, though she carries a torch and a wreath, wears swirling classical robes. Riflemen have at one time or another shot off the wreath...
Grave sins cited by German second-graders most often included throwing away food or money or "making fun of God." But one moppet, asked to describe a small sin, disconcertingly replied, "Playing cowboy and taking Father's rifle and saying there's no bullet in it but there is and you shoot somebody dead...
...advancing line of men, women and children in a Warwick, R. I. fire station last week. As each approached, the captain applied the gun to an arm and fired a shot. The projectile, emerging with a muzzle velocity of 1,000 ft. per second (faster than a .45 pistol bullet), made a hole only 1 200 in. in diameter. If the crowd became too big, one of the captain's aides took up another of his six guns and went to work. In one day they shot 11,108 Rhode Islanders...
...Vandenberg's launching pad last week, it looked exactly like its predecessors. But one important modification had been made. Speculating that previous re-entry failures had been caused by malfunction of tiny rockets designed to stabilize the satellite in orbit-by causing it to spin like a bullet-Lockheed Aircraft Corp. engineers had replaced the rockets with gas jets, anxiously prayed they had guessed right. In the console-banked control room at Sunnyvale, Calif., Air Force Colonel Charles G. ("Moose") Mathison paced the floor while monitoring the countdown and alerting his worldwide tracking network. After launch, Mathison waited tensely...