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...Five?" Susskind's hand is always out, while his mind is nimbly at work on projects that range from the selling of nylons to the peddling of statues of the Virgin Mary. Fidelman desperately attempts to fend him off, first with handouts, then with insults, but Susskind clings like chewing gum to a shoe: he pops up in a trattoria to spoil Fidelman's appetite by hungrily watching him eat; he stands shivering at his side to shame Fidelman for having warm clothing. Given four dollars, Susskind contemptuously counts the money, demands: "If four, then why not five...
...time he had turned 16, Herbert O. Yardley had a head start down the road to juvenile delinquency. His mother died and left him $200, and his father left him to fend for himself. Furthermore, he had a taste for high life in the local saloons, and at the turn of the century, Worthington, Ind. was loaded with them. But Herbert was saved by sport. Monty, the boss of his favorite barroom, was a gambler who taught his young customer the finer points of that great indoor game-poker...
...well-to-do homes. He eased into the driveway of a handsome French provincial house on South 24th Street, pulled into the garage, forced his way into the home of C. Lauer Ward, president of the Capital Steel Co. Starkweather prodded Mrs. Clara Ward, 46, and Housekeeper Lillian Fend, 51, to the second floor, bound and gagged them, then stabbed them to death. About 5:30, after a conference with Nebraska's Governor Victor Anderson at the Capitol a few blocks away, Lauer Ward, 47, came home. When he opened his front door, Starkweather was waiting in the hall...
What the ileitis did do was to throw even greater doubt on Dwight Eisenhower's availability for renomination, and for months the Washington press asked about little else. Hagerty knew when Ike was ready to run again, but he still had to fend off questions. Finally, at Gettysburg, Hagerty talked to Ike in a cattle pen near the gabled farmhouse. "How are things in the outside world?" asked the President. "They're driving me crazy about re-election," said Hagerty. "Let's break the logjam." replied President Eisenhower. "Jim, why don't you go back...
Bolivia's President Siles once went on a hunger strike to fend off pressures to break his austerity pledge. Said he: "I will never sign a decree assisting inflation." Instead, he forced through a law prohibiting issuance of new currency by the Central Bank. Today, Bolivia seems on the way to sound money...