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Shaken Hero. Thus the young King sidestepped one trap, but a hectic trip through his country reminded him of another. Crossing the River Jordan, the King was almost hysterically received by his ex-Palestinian subjects. Throngs of refugees, who have been waiting ever since the 1949 armistice for a new war to regain their lost possessions, crowded round...
Outwardly, Len Hall seems to thrive on his hectic regimen-and there is little doubt that he relishes his work. His geniality has not rubbed off under the stress. His singing and his original songs (sample title: The Squaws on the Yukon Are Good Enough for Me) are famous in Washington. Office staffers have learned to ignore his flagrant practical jokes-like the swollen and bloody fake finger he sometimes wears. He has to fight his weight (and at 225 Ibs., the weight is winning). To the casual observer he seems to be a bald and bouncy gladhander, as carefree...
...Fifth Avenue duplex was serenely elegant, from the gold-plated fixtures in her bathroom to the crepe-dechine sheets and mink coverlet on her bed. Lunching at the Pavilion, sweeping into the opera or arriving in Paris, Hattie was always a conversation-stopper. Her domestic life was sometimes hectic: after two brief and capricious marriages, she finally settled down with Major John Zanft, a childhood sweetheart from the East Side. "I've had three husbands," she often said, "but my real romance is my work." There was never any doubt of that...
When President Juscelino Kubitschek finally left his office at 9 p.m. at the end of his first full day on the job, tired Catete Palace staffers hopefully predicted that the hectic pace would soon relax. But all week long the President kept getting to his office at 7 a.m. and putting in 12-to-14-hour working days. By week's end, those who survived Kubitschek's brisk new-brooming had just about decided that the change in Catete's easygoing tropical routines was permanent...
When the Eisenhower Administration rode into Washington three years ago, it came to power with a long-standing identification with business interests and some general ideas on the allocation of the nation's natural resources. In hectic succession, the President proposed measures to return the Tidelands to state control, to bypass the authority of the T.V.A., and to sell of government-owned synthetic rubber plants. Before Saturday, Mr. Eisenhower will have one more opportunity to oppose government interference with the workings of private industry, when he decides whether or not to sign the controversial Natural Gas bill...