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...responsibility. But in all its 68 years, California's Pomona College (enrollment: 1,025) had rarely had a more eager class. They were 25 rising executives, with jobs ranging from blast furnace superintendent to insurance company vice president. They had been sent to Pomona, at company expense, to gulp down as big a dose of the liberal arts as possible in two weeks...
...Andrew Scheele. As Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, he was doctor to the U.S. people, and it was his job to insist on the priority of scientific precautions over political speed. This brought him into unhappy conflict with the then Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Oveta Gulp Hobby. A quiet career man for two decades, Scheele became increasingly aware that the hazards of public service are poorly compensated. Last week, without forewarning, he quit. His decision was made, he wrote President Eisenhower, "in the interests of providing more properly for the future security of my family" (wife...
...phone call came while Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty was dressing. "Dr. Snyder thinks you'd better get down here right away," said the White House telephone operator. Jim Hagerty managed to gulp a glass of milk and two pieces of toast-and rushed off to two sleepless days of a grueling news marathon. While the drama's main actor lay behind the scenes, Jim Hagerty held the center of the stage, almost the only source of public information on the President's condition until Ike was well out of danger...
...Military Tradition, Historian Bruce Catton says that "the Civil War . . . infinitely broadened the category of American citizenship and the meaning of the American experiment ... It had committed the nation to a working belief in the brotherhood of man. This probably was a little too much to swallow at one gulp in the 18703 or at any other time." It is surely too big a gulp for one part of the nation to swallow without the help and vigorous cooperation of the rest...
...time, Hong Kong was a frightened place. Today Hong Kong is remarkably unfrightened. Its citizens, if they talk about it at all, exchange the mutual confidence that the big Red cat will not try to gulp down Britain's fat little Asian canary unless it is prepared to take on Britain and the whole Western world...