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Earlier in the day, Mrs. Nixon's press secretary, Helen Smith, vacationing in London, had telephoned Julie Eisenhower in the White House, asking whether she should return to Washington to assist the First Lady. "Do you know something I don't know?" asked Julie. No, she had only been reading newspaper reports. "Everything is going to be all right," Julie assured her -indicating how persuasively the President had convinced his family that he would ride out the crisis...
Unchallenged for re-election in 1948, Nixon raised his sights in 1950 and ran for the Senate against Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, a former actress. It would be, he said, a "rocking, socking campaign." That was putting it mildly. Nixon issued a "pink sheet" showing that Douglas and Vito Marcantonio, a Communist-lining Congressman from New York's East Harlem, had cast 354 identical votes in the House. A lot of others had voted with Marcantonio on many issues, including Nixon, who sided with him 112 times out of roughly 200 votes. Still, the tactic earned Douglas a label...
...work of Gustave Moreau . . . des Esseintes saw, realized at last, the strange and superhuman Salome he had dreamed of . . . the accursed Beauty, marked out from all others by the catalepsy which stiffened her flesh and hardened her muscles; the monstrous Beast, indifferent, unresponsive, unfeeling and, like Helen in antiquity, poisoning everyone who came near...
...that the audience be able to at least know who is telling them what, so that if they're interested, they can go and check the guy out after the film. If this were a film about South Africa, it would make a big difference if one speaker was Helen Suzman and another Prime Minister Vorster. Political personalities like Kenan and Harkavi are not just ordinary Israelis. They both have very heavy political and ideological stakes in what happens in Israel. Why aren't we at least given a clue as to what interests they may be trying to promote...
...lone wolf who does not make too many friends," says his friend Helen Vlachos, an exiled Athens publisher now living in London. She adds: "Caramanlis is not, in the Greek way, familiar. But he knows exactly the character of the Greek people, and he knows how to make himself respected and obeyed...