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...down the stretch, three cars flashed by to finish, led by his protege, 22-year-old New Zealander Bruce McLaren in another Cooper-Climax. But World Champion Jack Brabham doggedly kept going, gave one last shove at the line, collapsed on the pavement, retched, quickly recovered enough to grin: "They should have built that machine with a rope on the front...
Lanky Neil McElroy eased through a cluster of photographers in the White House conference room and shook the hand of the darkly handsome man standing by the fireplace. "Take charge, boy," he said, with a broad grin. "This is what you call the first team going in." A few minutes later, while President Eisenhower and the Pentagon's top brass looked on approvingly, Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr., 53, was sworn in as the nation's seventh Secretary of Defense...
Through his first frenzied months in office, Iraq's lean and ascetic Premier Karim Kassem snatched a few hours sleep nightly on a couch near his office desk. Visitors to his Baghdad Defense Ministry headquarters were impressed by his tightly reined self-control and the masklike grin he wore. But the assassin's bullets that crumpled his left shoulder last October seem to have shattered the mask, and perhaps shattered Kassem's tight self-control as well...
...Grin Returns. Next morning Politico Rockefeller rose like a new day. Into his hotel suite for breakfast came a Wisconsin delegation which left enthusiastically with the word that Rocky probably would be speaking "somewhere" in their state on his return from California and Oregon next month. Several Illinois Republican bigwigs dropped in for a chat, and National Committeeman Morton Hollingsworth observed: "I would have no fears as a Republican if he should be elected...
...favorites, Army Blue ("We'll bid farewell to Kaydet Gray, and don the Army Blue . . .")-The White House employees had filled a huge vase with 69 roses, and the executive staff presented him with four matched bridge chairs for the Gettysburg farm. The famed Eisenhower grin showed that the President felt quite at home in Washington...