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...that same time last week, out on a rolling estate at McLean. Va., Attorney General and Mrs. Robert Kennedy were having a luncheon in honor of Poet Robert Frost. The guest list was an exclusive nine people, and the bright talk ranged from Francis Thompson's The Hound of Heaven to Astronaut John Glenn's identity with God in outer space...
...Hound of Heaven (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). An Easter reading of Francis Thompson's religious poem...
...routine check of the vans carrying the governor's property, discovered one filled with nothing but toilet paper--15,000 rolls of it--and perhaps as many bars of soap, all taken from the mansion. One observer remarked that "he--if not his administration--was sure clean as a hound's tooth...
...World War II, Moore in the past 19 years has pieced together Transcontinental's operating subsidiary, Continental Trailways, and built it into the second largest U.S. bus system, with 53,000 miles of routes in 34 states. Compared with the top dog in the bus business, giant Grey hound, Continental is still a pup, but it is growing at a rate to give Greyhound pause. Last week, while Greyhound was reporting a 2.5% increase in its 1961 operating revenues (to $334 million), Continental announced that its revenues had jumped 11% from $45 million to $50 million. Even more impressive...
...Clay appealed to the rookies' thirst for new-blood leadership. Before Clay, the Speaker generally acted as a feeble referee over an undisciplined House mob. A stern taskmaster, Clay brought order and respectability to the House. Members were forbidden to put their feet on their desks, and the hound dog of Virginia's eccentric John Randolph was banished from the chamber on orders of the Speaker. Clay refused to be a mere presiding officer, asserted his rights to appear on the floor as an eloquent member. With the backing of Secretary of State James Monroe, Speaker Clay forced...