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...City Manager John B. Atkinson developed a halo during his decade in office, and he deserved it. Where once aldermen grew fat from their trucking contracts with Cambridge, city officials from kickbacks, and politicians in general from the hopeless tangle of Cambridge finance, Atkinson reduced city administration to a degree of orderliness and efficiency which any modern corporation would be proud to claim...
...first young surgeon's advice. Then it was too late. No psychiatrist could turn back the clock. By then the doctors agreed that her first trouble had been a simple, psychogenic stomachache, but it had snowballed until every problem in her life brought gastrointestinal distress. She became a hopeless hypochondriac, obsessed with her mentally tangled intestines, incurably ill with what the late great Sir William Osier, who was not given to psychiatric terminology, called "bowels on the brain...
...Three out of four own less than an acre of land, two out of three suffer from hookworm and malaria, nine out of ten are partially blind from the effects of bad water and undernourishment. Near the palace gates, beggars lay in the hot sun, too weak, sick, or hopeless to drag themselves into the shade...
...interrupted almost at once by applause. He was, he cried, "more firmly convinced in the righteousness of the Democratic cause than . . . ever before in my entire life . . ." He was not a candidate. But as he went on, it was impossible not to conclude that he was making a hopeless, last-ditch attempt to bring about some improbable stampede of delegates, to set off some improbable rallying of the television audiences. He spoke without a text. "Not," he said, "from a piece of paper, but from the heart." Bathed by applause, he fell into that half trance in which...
Harry Truman would not allow himself to be drafted unless there was a thoroughly hopeless deadlock that could not be broken by a draft of Stevenson...