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...Everett Dirksen's 73rd birthday, and the Illinois Senator opened the romp and circumstance by dipping into a voluminous chocolate cake. Then Ev marched his guests in to inspect his latest joy: the kidney-shaped heated indoor swimming pool that he and his wife have built at their Leesburg, Va., home. Both Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew stopped by to pay their respects, and unlike the pool-dunking days of the New Frontier, not a soul was dampened in the drink. "But it was still a fun party," reported Mrs. Dirksen. "The two elects and the birthday boy proposed...
...HALF-HOUR after thrusting out from earth orbit toward the moon, the astronauts faced a test that was crucial to the first actual lunar landings. They successfully separated their spacecraft from the third-stage S-4B rocket, moved 50 feet ahead of it, then turned to inspect it. After sending the S-4B off into orbit around the sun, Apollo was to continue coasting toward the moon, firing its engine briefly only if a mid-course correction was needed to put the craft precisely on its path...
...Manchester's series of family portraits a gallery of near-grotesques. Alfred ranted against "speculators, stock-exchange Jews, share swindlers and similar parasites"; then he borrowed from the banker Salomon Oppenheim to meet his payroll. Paranoiacally fearful of Socialist tendencies among his workers, he hired an agent to inspect even the "used toilet paper" for seditious notes. He also located his office above a stable so that he could inhale the "healthgiving" aroma of manure...
...Eliot's first draft, riddled with Pound's penciled comments, will be published in September 1969. Until that time, the draft, with other notes and the unpublished manuscript, will remain encapsulated: the New York Public Library has declined to allow scholars or journalists to do more than inspect (without taking notes) a few pages selected from its hoard...
...Macy's customer has become the prototype of the shopper, Straus has become the archetype of the shrewd retailer. Straus zeroed in on what he called his "bull's-eye" (middle-income) clientele, liked to stalk around the floors to check on the sales people and inspect the merchandising for taste...