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...stanza Poem in a Festival of Art in Boston at the Public Garden, then headed there to read it. Gist of Poem: "Is it the city or heart that's wrong . . . / O hush! There is a silence in this place, / For all the chattering gears that grind, a grace / Of present expectation in this ground . . . / No city stands but is the image of the heart...
...weary press secretary's tension melted with the good news, but the grind went on. Late that afternoon, in a radio interview with ABC Correspondent Martin Agronsky, Hagerty parried persistent questions on whether he thought Ike would still run for reelection. Finally, in a mixture of relief and fatigue, he gave way. "Do you expect to be around here another four years?" tried Agronsky. Chuckled Hagerty: "I think so." Soon afterward, just 36 hours after the call from the White House, Jim Hagerty finished a job well done and went home...
...make matters worse, the track's new blacktop surface seemed especially abrasive. Every time there was an accident, the yellow caution lights went on, warning drivers to hold their positions. During the unregulated moments when the track was clear, drivers roared to top speed. So the long grind degenerated into a series of lopes and sprints...
...Mutual radio network has a scheme for attracting longhairs: a chain of classical-music stations to extend from Virginia to Maine. The good music will be carried exclusively on the FM band of the network stations, while the AM channels continue to grind out Mutual's regular shows...
Polish Pratfall. During pre-race physical exams in Warsaw, Russia's Yevgeny Klevtsov grabbed a machine designed to test his grip, squeezed the needle right off the dial and immediately began bawling for a meter that could show just how strong he really was. The grind had hardly begun when a member of the Polish emigre team tried to bump Italian Ace Dino Bruni into the gutter. Bruni kept his balance, but one of his volatile teammates unfastened his bicycle pump and bent it over the Pole's head. Out of Lodz, hell-bent for Stalingrod...