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Irving led me over to his bunk, one of several tiny rooms near the stalls. "This is a 24-hour-a-day job," he began. "We get here at 4:30 in the morning to feed and water the horses. After their exercises, we have to wash 'em, cool 'em, and brush 'em. Then we do 'em up. We rub their legs and bandage 'em with cotton and wraps. At 10:00 we feed and water the horses again. Before the race in the afternoon we get 'em ready. Then we wash 'em and walk 'em after each race. Feeding...
...into his well-ordered life. He opened his house to newsmen and treated them with his customary Southern affability. But then, as the opposition to his appointment grew, he reasserted a claim to privacy. Members of his family and intimates helped provide protection by setting up a 15-hour-a-day command-post type of operation to shield him from visitors and telephone callers, and telling all but his closest friends that the judge was unavailable. "He became something of a recluse," commented a friend, Malcolm Johnson. "He was a prisoner in his own home...
When McLaren took over at Justice there was no lack of work on the books; the count of pending antitrust cases alone came to 107. The ambitious 51-year-old trustbuster has been setting a 12-hour-a-day pace in the office, and is not likely to slacken. He plans to increase his staff, which now includes 280 lawyers and 320 other workers, to take on a still larger caseload. He disclaims any interest in defending "established company managements from takeovers." Still, if he gets his way in court, future takeovers in the form of conglomerate mergers are going...
...Boston Movement Center in Chicago will have a 24-hour-a-day doctor on hand, Miss Erenstein said, and will be able to coordinate legal aid. It will plan certain demonstrations, such as a support demonstration for striking telephone workers in Chicago...
McCloskey's cause was aided by an army of young volunteers who saturated the district with campaign literature and followed their leader's 18-hour-a-day campaign pace. While McCloskey called for a negotiated settlement of the Viet Nam war and gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops, he rejected the wording of San Francisco's Proposition P, which called for a unilateral, immediate pullout. The issue had lost 2 to 1 in San Francisco a week earlier, and San Mateo voters would undoubtedly have rejected it even more decisively had it been on their ballot...