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George, six years old and puny, put on a pair of heavy boxing gloves and squared off. "Good luck," he chirped at his sparring partner, a pudgy, middle-aged man with an embarrassed grin on his face. Then, summoning his fiercest look, George hauled off and belted his dad not once but twice, smack on the nose. His father, an eminent Boston psychiatrist, looked pained-but pleased...
...patient fellow. I listened to his story and I nodded my head here and there while Anderson explained this to me. "When Anderson finished explaining this I learned back in my chair but I could not suppress a little grin. Slowly, ever so slowly, I began to explain. . . "You see, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Wilson just told me that one of the interesting things about the photo was that it showed people in front of the doors with their arms linked, and this was something that Mr. Wilson said the Committee did not know at the time it punished Fink...
Even the saturnine Mr. Anderson could not suppress a little grin from spreading over his face. Mr. Anderson had made up this three-leveled cake about these levels of punishment, and, well, this cake had just fallen into his lap, and not even the saturnine Mr. Anderson could stop himself from grinning with all this cake in his lap. I then informed the grinning Mr. Anderson that I would file the papers necessary for a formal appeal...
...their names in nomination to become the 46th Speaker of the House, the nation's third highest office. Neither was the least bit surprised when the vote was announced as 250 for Albert, 176 for Ford. Graciously, the defeated Ford escorted Albert, whose elfin face crinkled into a massive grin, through the cheering chamber. At the rostrum, Ford observed that "we are the representatives not of political parties but of the people." He praised Albert warmly and noted with mock solemnity that "until this moment, there has never been a Speaker from Bug Tussle, Oklahoma." Amid more applause, the diminutive...
...since he is free of any presidential ambitions of his own. Nixon has already predicted privately that Albert will be "much tougher" to deal with than Mc-Cormack was. The President had a personal word for Albert on television before his State of the Union message, whispering with a grin, as the assembled officials applauded, "they like you!" As Nixon noted, the two have known and respected each other ever since they entered Congress together in 1947 (in the same class with Jack Kennedy), but they have not been social intimates...