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This is an honest, knowledgeable guy. I don't think he's St. George, since I know firsthand he's a human being with some human weaknesses. But his political success in 1964 is needed urgently by Illinois, the party and the nation...
...behaves much as a human embryo in normal gestation. Marquardt researchers are already well acquainted with the opossum, having learned how to detach the tiny fetus from the mother's breast to feed it artificially. Mixing drugs with the food, the researchers should be able to observe firsthand their effects on a growing fetus...
Inevitably, the regulators are targets of aggressive lobbying, and occasionally they get involved in a scandal with a Bobby Baker or a Sherman Adams. One of their traditional weaknesses is that many appointees come with little firsthand knowledge of the fields they will regulate. The men who regulate million-dollar industries are not highly paid-commission chairmen get up to $21,500 and powerful examiners get about...
...lady was furious, issued broadsides from behind the closed doors of her fashionable Left Bank apartment, fired off letters of protest to President Johnson. But she was not so furious as to lose her head completely. An American correspondent, trying to get Madame Nhu's firsthand version of the whole affair, knocked on the apartment door, was met by her daughter Le Thuy, and the following conversation took place: Le Thuy: Surely you know that Madame will not see journalists without payment in advance? Reporter: How much, if we just talk about the visa? Le Thuy: For how much...
With McCulloch's firsthand reporting, supported by backgrounding from the rest of the Hong Kong staff and the Washington bureau, the cover story written by Robert Jones and edited by Henry Grunwald throws the sharpest light yet on the plight and possibilities of Laos and the U.S. in the jungle of neutralism...