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...life of the press corps which accompanies the President is hectic and tense. They must scramble to get off the plane and on the press buses on time; they must battle the crowd before it blocks the press section of the speaker's platform; they must scramble again to the buses and then out of the buses back onto the plane. The only time available to the press to write their stories is during flight, and there is a din of clattering typewriters on the plane at all times. Then there is a furious competition to reach the press telephones...
...either by Venezuela's pro-Communist terrorists or the handful of vengeful French exiles in Latin America, the government posted 20,000 troops, police and security agents around the city; helicopters whirred FABRY overhead, and sentries dotted the rooftops along the illustrious visitor's route. In 30 hectic hours, De Gaulle made no fewer than nine public appearances; with remarkable stamina for a man of 73, he visited the tomb of Simón Bolívar, spoke before members of Congress, accepted Venezuela's gold-chained Order of the Liberator, and bestowed the Grand Cross...
...appearance as a soloist with a symphony at the age of eight, he fell asleep in a chair while waiting to go on. With success he acquired a taste for high life and a distaste for practice. It never seemed to make any difference in his playing. After one hectic binge, he went on to a performance in London's Queens Hall that forced George Bernard Shaw to admit Heifetz' playing had been so infuriatingly perfect that he had spent a sleepless night...
...hectic was Percy's extracurricular pace that his grades suffered (he graduated with a C average), and University Chancellor Robert Hutchins was once moved to admonish him: "You're exactly the kind of student I'm trying to keep out of the university." But in later years Hutchins recalled Percy as the "richest boy who ever worked his way through college." He had a point: in his senior year at the university, Chuck grossed $150,000 from his business enterprises, netted...
...Senate, even enjoying some leisurely living with his wife Muriel, their four children and two grandchildren, and perhaps more regular returns to the family's lakefront home in Waverly. Minn. To most men. this would hardly be an unpleasant prospect, and Humphrey himself admits that after hectic weeks in the capital, he likes nothing better than to visit Waverly to "put on a pair of blue jeans, get out in a boat-and just smell...