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Some protest that Hoegh's calling out of the National Guard to enforce a highway safety program was a "grandstand" play. Others believe that Hoegh's flying over the state to survey drought areas in a National Guard plane was a waste of public funds (though they were federal funds). There was an uproar when the state purchasing agent made a special trade-in deal, avoiding the $2,000 limit on the prices for a state auto, to get the governor an air-conditioned Oldsmobile sedan. Another outcry came when he flew to a former lowans' picnic...
...years ago when he became Premier of Japan, aging, partially paralyzed Ichiro Hatoyama declared: "My health will not permit me to remain very long as Prime Minister." Last week, still ailing and still talking of retirement, the 73-year-old Premier launched a desperate grandstand play to prolong his political life. He will go to Moscow, he announced, to seek what two other Japanese missions have failed to get-a peace settlement with Russia...
...swarming customers headed last week for the glare of the carnival midway in Great Falls, Mont., there seemed nothing special about the husky-voiced man at the refreshment booth just inside the grandstand. "Kids, kids, kids!'' he would cry. "Big kids, little kids, bring your dimes and nickels! Get your ice cream here!" He pushed the hot dogs ("See how long they are!-30? to the foot, 90? to the yard!"), kept up a steady stream of jingles ("Local bread, pound of meat,/And all the mustard you can eat"), in every way seemed to be just...
...sportswriters know that in 1912 Ty Cobb was fined only $50 for running into the grandstand and punching a spectator? Why, at this price Ted could demand his money's worth and maim 100 vehement fans...
...Automobile Club de I'Ouest also remembered that les -vingt-quatre heures mean a grand influx of 1) hundreds of thousands of visitors, and 2) coin of the realm. So they worked out a compromise between dollars and danger. They widened the road, beefed up the grandstand, and optimistically wrote some strict rules for cars and drivers...