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...happened that your offices in New York had been swept away by some fervid desire to drain the lifeblood from local citizens and had established a blood-donor center on the main floor. Unwittingly, I entered the building and presented myself at what seemed to be a reception desk. The lady behind the desk was overjoyed to see me, and I thought that the public-relations staff of the magazine had been particularly diligent in its indoctrination. I was asked my name, my habitat, some personal history and my blood type. This again was ascribed by me to be part...
Some Democrats are looking as far ahead as 1956, but the view is blurred. Adlai Stevenson still has a fervid follow ing, notably among the all-important amateurs outside the old Democratic organization ranks. There is already talk about new possibilities, e.g., Missouri's Senator Symington, who has a long record of success in business, Government and politics. Occasionally a Democrat will speculate on whether Lyndon Johnson, the party's key man of 1953, may himself be the party's presidential candidate...
...shocked and surprised," said Bob Taft, that such fervid Democratic opponents of the filibuster as New York's Senator Herbert H. Lehman, Illinois' Paul Douglas and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey are now obviously engaged in one. He was not shocked but was irked at Alabama's Democratic Senator Lister Hill, a veteran filibusterer. At one point, Hill, who had held the floor for three days, strolled down the aisle, clapped a hand on Taft's shoulder and called him "my sweet, good friend from Ohio, whose shining virtue is the virtue of integrity." When Hill...
Once the wife is with child, a Kogi man can throw himself without reserve into the male community's fervid philosophical life. He gathers nightly with other men in a big conical ceremonial house to chew coca leaves and listen to the mama extoll the merits of inactivity and incuriosity, the Kogi ideals. The drug dispels the physical and sexual hunger that the Kogi man despises; at his nightly talk fest, he is content...
Three teenagers, certain their quest would be blessed, trooped into Mexico City's Church of San Juan to raise fervid dark eyes to the statue of St. Anthony, encrusted with silver hearts which are the gifts of successful supplicants. At the same church, Delia Ruiz, 24, lamented: "He pays no attention to me. I won't come any more. If he wants to help, he knows where I live." But Felipa Moreno, 27, had a glowing testimonial: "I can never thank San Antonio enough for the beautiful accident he provided me. Four years ago, I wanted a husband...