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Concerned. The protests flowed like molten lava to Washington. To his dismay, Nicholas Katzenbach found a troop of twelve Negro and white demonstrators parked in the corridor near his office, demanding that he send federal troops to Alabama. Katzenbach talked with them, tried to explain how the Federal Government works through the courts. He got nowhere, permitted the sit-ins to remain till closing time, then had them evicted...
...presumably containing a virus, derived from the mucus of other volunteers who had in fact had colds. Sometimes it was a plain saline solution. Not even the doctors knew which it was until after the test. Some subjects agreed to take hot showers, then stand around in a cold corridor without drying themselves. Others went out in the rain, got drenched, and then sat around in a cold room. Volunteers had to use paper tissues instead of handkerchiefs, and keep count of each tissue. Some of Sir Christopher's findings: > Determining whether a person even has a cold...
After last week's offbeat solo performance, the medical verdict was as favorable as the verdict delivered by jazz buffs in the corridor. Muggsy can go on playing, though he must take it easy for a while...
...secret is, Lyndon gives and takes," a fellow Senate Democrat once explained. "If you go along with him, he gives you a little here and there-a dam, or support for a bill." While he was Senate majority leader, Johnson's "treatment" became famous. In cloak room and corridor, in his baronial office or right out on the floor of the chamber, he would go to work on a colleague -squeezing his elbow, draping a huge paw over his shoulder, poking him in the chest, leaning so close as to be practically rubbing noses. On the phone...
...forth from the cockpit and chortled down the aisle, dispensing good cheer to all. Santa was actually taking part in a fierce dogfight for mastery of the sky on the world's most heavily traveled aerial freeway. More than 1,800,000 passengers flew on the 347-mile corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles in 1963, some quarter of a million more than on the second-place New York-Boston run, and the 1964 total will exceed 2,000,000. The route is so lucrative that four carriers-United, Western, TWA and Pacific Southwest-are cutting fares...