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...some, the feeling of imminence was too much. "When I was younger and my husband was still alive," mused Mrs. Jeannette Monaghan in Milwaukee, "I saved headlines-the big ones, the important ones. I thought it would make learning history easier for the kids. It got to be a habit, and even after they finished school I still saved them, but I don't any more. History happens too fast now." Others were frankly bewildered. "What can you do? What can any single citizen do?" asked Mrs. John Freter in Los Angeles. "The events seem far beyond my control...
Inge Borkh is a tall (5 ft. 9 in.), handsome opera star with a crushing tennis backhand and a disconcerting habit of sitting about nude in her dressing room...
Fading exports were not his only trouble. A fine designer, he sometimes got carried away by his last-minute ideas. Production men and cost accountants were run ragged by his habit of adding strips of chrome and other gadgets to models ready for production. Even though his production got as high as 107,000 units per year, between 1949 and 1961 Borgward put out 17 completely different models in some 60 styles. Said one of his aides in rueful amazement: "Give him a piece of clay and before you know it Carl has another model." He often tailored his cars...
...himself against playing Nikita's game. He was backed in his resolve by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, whose low opinion of summitry was expressed in a Foreign Affairs article last April: "Summit diplomacy is to be approached with the wariness with which a prudent physician prescribes a habit-forming drug-a technique to be employed rarely and under the most exceptional circumstances, with rigorous safeguards against its becoming a debilitating or dangerous habit." Early last week Kennedy and Rusk conferred for five hours, then announced their plans for achieving U.S. international aims not through summitry but through...
...gossipy memoir in McCall's magazine, Dwight Eisenhower's former Cabinet Secretary Robert Gray revealed that the tart tongue of ex-Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams did not always spare even Ike himself. Adams, wrote Gray, was inclined to be particularly waspish over the President's habit of slipping away in the afternoons ("Good God, is he playing golf again?") and at occasional presidential demands for ultra-swift action ("What does he think I am, a goddam gazelle...