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United as One. Now, as at all times since World War II, the U.S. did not believe that the Soviets wanted World War III, but Dwight Eisenhower took no chances. Out of the White House flowed a series of crisp and rippling decisions, a new urgency of diplomatic cables and phone calls. Through the lobby on the way to the President's office hustled so many VIPs-Vice President Nixon, Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., CIA Director Allen Dulles, Defense Mobilizer Arthur Flemming, Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Arthur Radford, et al. -that White House reporters lost count...
...cassock. His ordeal had left his face drawn, and he was more stooped and grey than Hungarians remembered him, but his eyes were bright and alert. Machine-gun-toting young soldiers moved forward and solicitous!) placed a fur-lined coat over his shoulders to guard him from the crisp...
...skits." What about? "A bird, a dog. a boy. a tree." Out of these literary acorns, feels Lowney. giant novels may grow. "I mark them and I write ideas all along the margins where they could develop, where they could get a stream of consciousness." Her marginalia are often crisp ("This becomes idiotic") and sometimes to the point ("You say his uniform was clean. This is the first time I've seen anyone in this story with any clothes on"). Says Tesch: "Lowney really helped me. She went through that book line by line, yet it's still...
Alighting from the Columbine at the Greater Pittsburgh Airport one afternoon last week, Candidate Dwight Eisenhower found campaign weather crisp and sunny. Moreover, with one sweep of his practiced eye, he could see that something was happening to the political barometer in this long-Democratic (since 1936) area. More than 5,000 had ignored the sixth World Series game, instead were gathered to meet his plane. Along the 18-mile route into the city, the President, in his bubble-domed limousine, saw jammed roadsides and signs ("Rosslyn Farms 99.4% for Ike") pointing his way. In downtown Pittsburgh 100,000 lined...
...eyebrows than usual," London's more or less crewcut Daily Express pressed the attack with a monumental grouse: "Not one photograph of him has ever revealed his forehead!" The trail led to an elegant tonsorial emporium called Trumper's, which fortnightly dispatches a barber named Crisp to the palace to shear Charles (price of the haircut: 62?). What manner of brow lurks beneath the Prince's plunging forelock? "We never," announced Trumper's aloofly, "discuss the heir's hair...