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...physicist promptly falls under his spell. Pearl Harbor packs Mark off to war and sets Sebastian fervently to work on the Bolt, or the Monster, as Author Chevalier interchangeably calls the atom bomb. At war's end, a grieving, disbelieving Ampter discovers that Sebastian has made him the butt of something very like the "Chevalier incident...
...field, they are finance majors (all Bs and Cs), who fret mildly because they cannot find identical twins to date-"not even unattractive ones." But on the field, they butt heads with unalloyed pleasure. Drawls Stanford Coach Jack Curtice: "Those boys could go bear hunting with a switch and come back with meat." Admits Marlin: "We get. sheer pleasure out of football-out of knocking people down. It's just plain...
SCARCELY any country on earth is less fitted to serve as a pivotal point in the struggle against Communism than Laos, a land of blue mountains, green jungles and affably unambitious people. Roughly the size of Oregon, Laos is shaped like a pistol with the butt pressing against Red China and the barrel aimed at Cambodia. Statistics are foreign to the Laotian mind, and the population can only be guessed at; estimates range from 1,000,-ooo to 4,000,000. Though it possesses two capital cities-Luangprabang for the royal family. Vientiane for the civil government-Laos...
Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, a master at the art of the possible, had argued against the attempt. "We told them there wasn't a chance of overriding that veto," says a Johnson aide. "They wouldn't listen. They wanted to butt their heads against a wall." Said Johnson after the vote, in pointed reference to his liberal colleagues: "We didn't kid anybody but ourselves." Next day the Senate Banking and Currency Committee approved a substitute, trimmed-down housing bill of $1,050,000,000-$240 million above the amount recommended by President Eisenhower, but perhaps...
...Iron Butt. It was at law school, too, that Nixon earned a fellow student's compliment: "You've got an iron butt, and that's the secret of becoming a lawyer.'' The Mazo biography recalls once again that many who have tried to kick Nixon have only succeeded in stubbing their toes on that iron butt. He has been lucky, but he also managed to escape numerous brushes with political disaster thanks to political skill and courage. Mazo reports, for instance, how in 1956 Eisenhower suggested to Nixon that he might want a Cabinet post...