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...stock traders rushed to unload, Chrysler broke 5¾ points to 59⅛, led the Dow-Jones industrial average down more than eight points (to 339.64) before the market steadied, closed at 343.06. In one hectic day, New York Stock Exchange volume soared to 3,347,040 shares, second highest of the year...
Blunt Man. In the last busy week, Mendès' first concern was to strengthen his own hand. He cajoled John Foster Dulles as far as Paris, made a hectic flying visit from Geneva to Paris (accompanied by Britain's admiring Anthony Eden) to meet him. Mendès did not stand on protocol. He rushed right over to the U.S. embassy to see Dulles. He wanted to make it clear that he was not a "peace-at-any-price...
Dulles was impressed with the position, and the man. After 24 hours of hectic and earnest talk, Mendès returned to Geneva with Dulles' promise to send Bedell Smith back to Geneva...
...hectic week ended, Governor Crosby, a candidate for the full Senate term, summed up the situation. The "bitterly unfortunate" state election law, he said, had forced Nebraskans to act as though they were "lacking in decorum...
...eleven hours a day. He lives in the elegant Cosmos Club, and resolutely fends off hostesses, keeping his social engagements down to a maximum of three a week. As always, his office swarms with constituents, and John Cooper frequently begins his day with breakfast surrounded by visiting friends. So hectic is the pace that his administrative assistant, Bill Macomber, finds it necessary to pick up the Senator and drive him to the office each morning in order to confer privately and get the Cooper calendar straight...