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...yard line seats, about halfway up the stands. Within seconds a moist chill had permeated my bottom. Dammit, I had forgotten to bring something to sit on. Susan was singing the Latin words to "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard." She really was gung-ho. Or maybe she dated someone in the hand...
...trade was hurting most. At Perino's, an expense-account restaurant in Los Angeles, business was off 10%. The nationwide Ask Mr. Foster travel service noted a decline in sales of luxury tours. A Beverly Hills florist moaned: "People are still getting married, having babies and birthdays, but dammit, they're not saying it with flowers." (One jeweler reported a pickup in sales of diamonds, presumably to buyers who had decided that rocks are safer than stocks.) There were some other signs of consumer caution. Savings deposits in New York banks rose sharply in June, while applications...
...Thom in central Laos after the royal army fled. U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Harry Felt himself flew into Udon to try to buck up the pro-Western army chief, General Phoumi Nosavan-but with no noticeable results. Complained one military man in Vientiane: "This is war, dammit, but the Laotians are just not willing to risk getting killed. They don't think past tomorrow, and many not even as far ahead as tonight." In the event of a major attack by the Pathet Lao, he added gloomily, "the army will scuttle off like rabbits...
Jabbing a finger toward his desk chair, Dwight Eisenhower told a recent White House visitor: "Listen, dammit, I'm going to do everything possible to keep that Jack Kennedy from sitting in this chair...
...Dwight Eisenhower returned to Washington in a down-to-business, where's-everybody-else-been mood. To Republican congressional leaders gathered at the White House, he made it bouncily clear that he intends to push hard for his own program and fight hard against unwelcome Democratic programs. "Dammit," he said, "don't you fellows forget that I'm going to be around for quite some time...