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...silver Constellation and took off for the Northwest. On the way. he managed a brief catnap in one of the plane's berths; ten hours and 2,507 miles later, when the big Connie came down through grey clouds at Boeing Field, Seattle, he looked fresh and chipper. That night at the governors' black-tie dinner. Ike unexpectedly turned up as just another guest to listen to an unimpressive speech by Humphrey on monetary policy; at 10:30 p.m. (2:30 a.m. by White House time) the President was still going strong...
Sounding more chipper than usual, New York's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer threw an office-warming cocktail party in the Mexico City penthouse suite of O'Dwyer, Bernstien & Correa, the law firm he is starting up with his brother Paul, New York Lawyer Oscar Bernstien, and a Mexican partner. O'Dwyer, who stayed on in Mexico (despite investigations back home of corruption in city politics) after resigning as U.S. ambassador last December, expects to visit the U.S. for about 90 days this year. "I plan to spend as much time in the United States...
Gibson, a white-haired, chipper man of 80, sat with Frederick C. Packard, associate professor of Public Speaking, and gave a rapid-fire commentary on his own readings, which will be kept at Lamont...
...radioactive cloud drifted eastward. A thick, dense column of dust reached into the sky behind it; below, a flat lake dust covered vast acres of desert. An hour passed before Army helicopters brought surprisingly chipper G.I.s from the trenches. Only two miles from Ground Zero, heat and light had passed over them as they crouched face down. The grey dust cloud they saw later, they were told was not dangerously radioactive. They had learned the lesson that atom bombs may spare careful soldiers who keep their distance and are well...
...cactus hedges and straw huts, with fanatical young Communists in brown homespun clothing shouting "La dai" (Come and get us). The legionnaires got them. On the river, naval units sank six barges full of Viet Minh soldiers and equipment. Four-star General Raoul Sa-lan, who has been consistently chipper, even on the eve of past setbacks, boasted: "The future of our military actions is now secured...