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Arrogant & Conceited. Harry apparently didn't give a damn either when, halfway through taping the two-part MacArthur series last March, he heard that MacArthur was gravely ill. "I'm going to die soon too," he snapped as he ordered the show to go on. "We're both old men. This is history." This free-swinging, give-'em-hell attitude makes Truman's vendetta extraordinarily lively television, at the same time giving the whole series the somewhat dubious hue of yellow journalism...
This ultimate limit will be reached in less than 1,000 years, says Dr. Fremlin, whose tongue is only halfway in his cheek. He sees no obstacle to man's attainment of a dreadful level of existence where even his movements will be rationed because motion generates heat. "We are free to choose," he says, "at what population density we want to call a halt, somewhere between the .000,006 people per square meter of the present and the 120 per square meter of the heat limit. If we do not choose, we shall eventually reach that limit...
...referred to "the man who watches over us in heaven this afternoon, John Fitzgerald Kennedy." At one point, he had talked so long that Lady Bird sent a note to the podium telling him it was time to stop. In Pittsburgh, people in the back rows began sneaking out halfway through his address. In Milwaukee, Lyndon missed his lunch, made up for it by stopping at William Balsmider's grocery and asking for "a little hunk of baloney" and half a dozen peppermint sticks. He had to borrow $1 from a Secret Service agent...
...hand, "the problem is that this crowd came to power without a program and is now having to improvise like mad." First they tried out their answers on Wladyslaw Gomulka, Khrushchev's crusty crony whose approval Brezhnev and Kosygin greatly needed to placate other satellite leaders. Meeting Gomulka halfway, in the primeval depths of Bialowieza Forest on the Russo-Polish border, they conferred in a Czarist hunting lodge, while the last sizable herd of European bison stomped and snuffled outside; inside, B. & K. buffaloed Gomulka with reasons and reassurances. He went away satisfied enough to defend Khrushchev...
...hard-shell poultry farmer, ousted William Arthur Winstead, who had been in the House for 22 years. In rural Georgia, Republican Howard ("Bo") Callaway, a slick-campaigning textile millionaire, topped former Lieutenant Governor Garland T. Byrd, who was hurt by Johnson even though he had refused to go even halfway for L.B.J. In Alabama's eight districts, the G.O.P. put up candidates in six, won five. The victors: W. Jack ("Thank God for Goldwater") Edwards, William L. Dickinson, Glenn Andrews, John H. Buchanan, and James D. Martin, who in 1962 had come with-in an ace of upsetting...