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Perhaps there are still some secrets to guard, but it is foolhardy to continue the unthinking, undisciplined classification of the most routine scientific knowledge and of the more recent discoveries already in the possession of Soviet technicians. A fetish for security can only lead to the breakdown of scientific communications within the United States, and increased handicaps for American scientists...
Being tucked away in the Pentagon suits Major Eisenhower fine. Without making a fetish of shunning the Presidential limelight, Soldier John has tried hard to shape his own life without fuss or favor. Bigger (178 lbs.) and taller (6 ft. 1 in.) than his father, John has Ike's grin and his parents' blue eyes, the Eisenhower receding hairline. His entire life has been touched by the climactic moments of his father's career as the top Allied commander of World War II, President of Columbia University, head of NATO forces, and finally President...
...executive fetish for secrecy has often been satirized, but until recently no steps have been taken to eliminate it. The extent to which documents of interest and importance to the public have been classified beyond the public's reach is still unmeasured. A product of Cold War hysteria, restriction of information has grown into a fundamental of Washington bureaucracy...
Kefauver's handshaking fetish has caused the Stevenson entourage some anguish. Admits a Kefauver assistant: "It's like pulling a fly off flypaper." Even Nancy Kefauver has her tale of woe. Campaigning with Estes one time, she stepped from a plane to face a howling wind and the prop wash of several other planes. Nancy's hat was imperiled, her skirt began to balloon. Says she: "Just as I grabbed for the hat with one hand and for the skirt with the other, an eager, friendly crowd swarmed up to greet us. Someone thrust...
...most unreasonable woman I ever knew . . ." wrote Shaw. "You think you are a better Catholic than I, but my view of the Bible is the view of the Fathers of the Church; and yours is that of a Belfast Protestant to whom the Bible is a fetish . . . But you must go on praying for me, however surprising the results...