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...passionately oppose this agreement." On the front bench, Morrison jerked around to glare. Loyal Laborites jeered. That night Attlee decided to put party unity above his convictions. The order went out to every Laborite: if there was a division, abstain...
Midnight Man. Now, in the wild glare of series fame, fans discovered that Dusty was a ballplayer right out of a book: Ring Lardner's Busher, magnificently self-assured, not one bit abashed by the big leagues, thoroughly convinced that he and his big bat could win a World Series by themselves...
...Senate is to consist in its proceeding with more coolness, with more system, and with more wisdom than the popular branch." One hundred and sixty-seven years later, when the floodlights blazed on the Army-McCarthy hearings, wisdom, system and coolness seemed to have vanished in the glare. But this week, out of a tidy office on the fourth floor of the Senate Office Building, came a ringing reassertion of the U.S. Senate's dignity...
...President ducked out. of the heat and glare of the TV lights and paced the floor slowly, hands behind .his back. He looked stricken momentarily when he found that his glasses were missing from his breast pocket, calmed down when he remembered they were in place on a walnut desk in the studio. A technician gave the two-minute warning, and Ike took his position in front of the desk. Two easels, out of camera range in front of the desk, supported stacks of 3-by-4-ft. cue cards, designed to allow him to get through the speech without...
Last week, at 37, Archie finally got a crack at the big time. It was a little late in the game for him to be impressed. Under the glare of the ring lights, Manhattan's Madison Square Garden looked like any other arena; even Harold Johnson, Archie's younger (26) opponent, seemed like an old friend. The two had already fought four times, and Archie had taken three decisions. "I've got his number and he knows it," he said the day before the fight. Now he shrugged off his black and gold bathrobe and waited patiently...