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...Among many made-in-California imitations and rivals of the Townsend Plan, two achieved notable power and the support of millions of voters: Upton Sinclair's E.P.I.C. (End Poverty in California) and the Ham-and-Eggs movement, both Utopian schemes to aid the poor and aged. Running as the Democratic nominee for Governor on an E.P.I.C. platform in 1934, Sinclair got 879,000 votes to Republican Frank Merriam's 1,138,000. Ham-and-Eggs, cooked up by a radio announcer and two admen, attracted wide public support (and several notorious scoundrels), forced a special referendum...
Would you please identify the two secretaries sipping cider in the doorway of Cook-ham's Royal Exchange...
Ocean's 11. Frank Sinatra's off-screen clansters (Dean Martin, Peter Lawford Sammy Davis Jr. et al), as their usual tough-talking, gamboling selves, ham up a Las Vegas robbery with enough foolishness to make it look like...
...satellite circled the earth once every 90.6 min. at an altitude of 198.8 miles, its powerful radios broadcast its presence to listening stations all over the world. A ham radio operator in Cleveland tracked its course across the summer sky for a full eleven minutes. On its 18th pass around the world, an electronic command flashed up from earth, triggered rockets that altered the satellite's course and pointed it back toward earth. A quick blast from retrorockets slowed its descent, and a special thermal shield protected the satellite's skin against the heat generated by rapid descent...
...same morning Hammarskjold also had a long conversation with Russia's Vasily Kuznetsov, who was strongly urging armed entry into Katanga, hoping thereby to drive a wedge into the NATO powers, who would have to line up on different sides of such a resolution. Ham marskjold gambled that the Russians would extract every possible drop of propaganda advantage from their bluster but that they would not oppose the African states in a showdown-and perhaps he got a wink that told...