Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wake of Nixon's statement there rose another wave of speculation (mostly by journalists and Democrats) that Eisenhower, if he runs again, might drop Nixon from the ticket. Next question: If not Nixon, who? In Washington, as guest of honor at a National Press Club lunch. Massachusetts Governor Christian A. (for Archibald) Herter (TIME, Feb. 20) was asked: "Would you accept No. 2 place on the ticket?" Pointedly, Herter replied: "I would like to be excused from answering that. The President is entitled to have the man he chooses . . . Dick Nixon is a good friend of mine...
...airport by parachute before the awed eyes of 250.000 Thailanders. Most impressive unprogrammed sight: the rescue in mid-air by one paratrooper of a comrade who jumped in the same stick but whose chute failed to open. Popeyed, rice farmers saw field guns and trucks larger than their houses drop from the sky. U.S. marines, landing from 30 helicopters, fought a mock battle against "enemy" strongpoints with flamethrowers and satchel charges...
Trouble in town when the price drop...
...jump a 4½-ft. fence of iron spikes from a standing position, and every once in a while, "just for the hell of it," he would walk along the outer rail of Pasadena's "suicide bridge" on his hands, apparently indifferent to the 190-ft. drop that awaited the least slip. He longed to be a member of Victor McLaglen's motorcycle corps of trick riders, and when he was 16 his father got him a secondhand cycle. For the next few years Bill rode blissfully about the streets of Pasadena, standing on the seat...
...that Beaverbrook allowed into the Express were those reminding readers of his support of Chamberlain's appeasement policy. As late as Aug. 14, 1939, Driberg noted, the Express predicted that "Hitler will keep the peace this year." Beaverbrook, recalling that Driberg then worked for him, was able to drop the footnote-"Mr. Driberg in the Daily Express, Aug. 26, 1939: 'My tip: no war this crisis...