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...week in office was a good example of why he needed to set aside one afternoon a week for quiet thought. First & foremost was the news from Russia, which required several extraordinary conferences with top intelligence and diplomatic aides. General Van Fleet came in to give his Chief a half-hour briefing on Korea and receive his fourth Distinguished Service Medal. Anthony Eden paid an informal call on his way in from the airport, later lunched with the President. The Foreign Ministers of Norway and Saudi Arabia conferred lengthily with the President. Even Dictator Trujillo of the Dominican Republic dropped...
...fall lectures consisted of half-hour talks followed by poetry readings, his own and others. Titles were "i and my parents," "i and their son," and "i and self-discovery." He first lecture in the second series...
...sensation. For one thing, she was noisy. She wept with rage and frustration when the cops arrested her (just in time to make the Sunday tabloids) at an East Side hotel. She kept it up at the D.A.'s office. She bawled steadily and stridently for a full half-hour as she was arraigned as a material witness in the case against Oleomargarine Heir Minot F. ("Mickey") Jelke, who is charged with being a procurer for well-heeled gents of café society...
...twin, Roger, gave no such hopeful signs. He was in a deep coma, barely staying alive on an ounce of formula every half-hour by a tube through the nose. The doctors could not be sure what minute might be his last...
...seven passengers on the Philippines Air Lines DC-3 that morning was a young Chinese in a leopard-skin jacket. As the plane took off from north Luzon's Laoag Ilocos Norte airport, on the coast of the South China Sea, the passengers settled down for the routine half-hour flight to Aparri. Suddenly the plane lurched into a 45° bank. Purser Eduardo Diago came down the aisle reassuring passengers: "That was a terrific downdraft." He tried the handle of the pilot's cabin, tried again, and began hammering on the door. Then the passengers...