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Next day, Kennedy felt chipper enough to indulge in a campaign practice that few American politicians abroad seem able to resist: shaking hands with the natives. Twice during his tours Kennedy darted away from his police escort to mingle with startled Parisians, giving them his smiling, low-keyed greeting: "How are you? Good to see you." But there was not much time for that sort of thing: his tightly scheduled day was jammed with both cerebration and ceremony...
Victims not so much of any enemy except wild chaos and disorder, the returning chipper and cheerful airmen were a welcome sample of American mission in a week when the U.S. was humiliated by the defection to Moscow of two trusted security employees (see below). Said Lieut. Kenneth E. Stickevers, his right hand in a splint and his left bandaged: "We do this for a living. We'll go anywhere, any time...
...flatly refused to ride in airplanes, insisted that all substitutes for the horse were a danger to life and limb ("They will kill you off! They go like hell, poppity-pop and hellity-scoop"). Like Pieter Brueghel the Elder, whom he admired so much, he filled his canvases with chipper little figures going about their daily chores, drinking their beer, sparking, preparing their feasts-all under a bright sky of perpetual blue...
Feat of Clay. The Symingtons' first home was a two-room apartment in Rochester, N.Y. Stu went to work in an iron foundry owned by his father's brothers. Starting near the bottom, as a chipper and then a moulder, he used to come home black with grime. At night he studied mechanical engineering at the Mechanics Institute, electrical engineering through the International Correspondence School. The year after he got married, Symington borrowed $250,000 from his uncles and started a business of his own, Eastern Clay Products Co., specializing in bonding clay for foundry molds...
...this day some of them remain convinced that his romance with U.E.W. was a bit of cynical expediency, however well it may have worked for Emerson Electric. The accusation overlooks Symington's authentic streak of respect for labor, which stems from his grimy days as a chipper and moulder in his uncle's foundry. Over the years, Symington has won the warm respect and esteem of the Electrical Workers' high-voltage President James Carey. "I have extremely high regard for Stuart Symington," says Carey, "and for extremely good reason-his record...