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...brilliant, ever-questioning teacher of labor law, Cox took time off in 1952 to serve as chairman of Harry Truman's Wage Stabilization Board but resigned in protest after four months when Truman overruled one of his wage recommendations. After the labor bill battle he became a Kennedy enthusiast, took leave from his Harvard chair (the Royall Professorship, oldest endowed chair in the law faculty) last July to serve full time as speechwriter and idea man on Kennedy's staff...
...Modern automobiles have a lowered silhouette with an acutely angled windshield, which greatly hampers entrance and exit," he wrote. "The smaller automobiles may add the additional problem of narrower doors and often depressed floors and offset control pedals. The enthusiast may tend to forget that he is using the muscles of the chest and shoulder girdle in a fashion to which he is not accustomed when he first acquires his new automobile.'' The hip and back symptoms are caused by the necessity of rotating the hip when entering or leaving a smaller car and "limitations in foot room...
...West German freighter Bilbao, suspected of carrying arms to the Algerian rebels. De Gaulle has put it more bluntly than anyone else: he regards the present frontiers between Poland and Germany as permanent and dismisses the German dream of recovering the "lost provinces." De Gaulle is obviously no enthusiast for a reunited Germany that would be bigger in population than France. In his memoirs (now compulsory reading in all alert chancelleries), De Gaulle described his postwar German policy-"end of the centralized Reich, autonomy for the left bank of the Rhine," and some kind of loose federal regime, which...
...Robert Oppenheimer developed the A-bomb under the get-things-done command of the Army's General Leslie Groves. A get-things-done type from the military today would be of the caliber of Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Curtis E. LeMay, a man-to-the-moon enthusiast and organizational genius, or Air Force Lieut. General Bernard Schriever, who brought the Atlas ICBM to operational capability, or Admiral Arthur Radford, the retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...next ten years, Quincy became a gentleman-farmer, managing his own farm to the delight of local entrepreneurs. "He was an enthusiast in whatever he undertook," his son wrote, "and he entered into farming with all the zeal of his ardent temperament. His agricultural experience, like that of most gentleman-farmers, was rather profitable to others than to himself...