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...Staff when Marshall was a lieutenant colonel. When F.D.R. succumbed to the prolonged arguments of Winston Churchill, who insisted on attacking the "soft underbelly of Europe," it was Marshall who got him to change his mind in favor of an assault across the English Channel. Marshall's fondest hope was that he could break out of the deskbound frustration of the staff planner to command the Normandy invasion, but Franklin Roosevelt turned him down: "I wouldn't sleep at night with you out of the country...
...from Segregation. In the solid granite Capitol in Raleigh, white-haired Governor Luther Hartwell Hodges, 61, businessman turned politician, totted up some headline statistics that proved the vigor behind his fondest dream: from January to March, industry built some $25,000,000 worth of new plants in North Carolina to add 5,600 new jobs (up 40% over 1958) paying $16 million a year (up 46%) to the state's payrolls. Showing its heels to its industry-hungry neighbors, North Carolina would almost certainly better its 1958 total of $253,000,000 in new-plant investment, tops...
...Their fondest hope is that they might prevent either party candidate from receiving the necessary 269 votes for election. In this case, the choice of a President is left to the House of Representatives where each state has only one vote. Thus any large bloc of states has formidable bargaining power...
...their well-kept fingernails. For neither the first nor the last time in the history of Nevada, the only state in the U.S. where gambling is legal in nearly all its forms (prohibited: dog racing, jai alai), an organized band had figured out a way to fulfill the fondest dream of hundreds of thousands of lemon-loathing laymen: hitting the jackpot on the slot machine, otherwise known as the one-armed bandit...
...Even in SAC's fondest dreams, it has little hope of getting an effective warning system much before 1960-61, in any event can hardly hope for much more warning than the 15 minutes' interval between blast-off and strike. Said SAC's Commanding General Tom Power in testimony last month before the Preparedness Subcommittee: SAC has no "airborne alert" in the sense of loaded bombers in midair at all times, and without adequate warning "it is conceivable that you could knock...