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Though Communists had sometimes sneaked in behind this respectable façade and made Graham look a little silly, he himself still commanded the respect of many Southerners. Ohio's John Bricker last week brought up the old, discredited question of Graham's fitness to handle confidential information as an atomic adviser. The first Senator on his feet was North Carolina's conservative old Clyde R. Hoey. He disagreed, Hoey admitted, with many of Graham's principles. But, orated frock-coated, windy old Senator Hoey: "He is as loyal as any American who walks this earth...
Behind the pink, tubby façade of rich Clendenin John Ryan, the soul of the selfless public servant throbbed. Unlike many another son of privilege, he did not collect show girls; he devoted himself to business and the sober pursuit of turning rascals out of government...
...What Israel wanted most was the Negeb, and it got that. The Arabs, however, got a 20-mile strip of coast around Gaza, and Israel agreed to a semi-demilitarization (only small defensive forces, no airplanes) of the Israeli-Egyptian border. Egypt was allowed to withdraw from the famed Fa-luja pocket, and last week her half-starved troops, who had been marooned in the pocket for 20 weeks, began a joyful exodus, heads held high...
...wire-thin, sallow-cheeked and dark-haired. But when 28-year-old Guido Cantelli stepped to the podium and rapped his baton, the jokes stopped. By the time Guido had driven them through bar-by-bar rehearsals of Hindemith and Haydn without looking at a score-gesturing and singing fa-sol-la-tis to make up for his lack of English-musicians were murmuring about "terrific talent...
...short, wiry figure of Frederick N. Goldsmith, 83, was as much a part of Wall Street as the pigeons on the Stock Exchange façade. For 50 years it had known his rumpled Panama hats, battered briefcase and friendly "Hi!" A successful man, he had made as much as $39,000 a year writing his market forecasts. Some 200 steady subscribers paid him up to $25 a month for his predictions...