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...jeep's probing searchlight scanned the countryside. "Keep your heads down," said Tryfus as we approached a railroad bridge. Twice in the past year it had been mined. We waited for a train to pass, climbed aboard a gasoline-driven "handcar" and rolled down the track to inspect the railroad line. Suddenly, in the darkness, a pink flare leaped. We stopped and found a land mine, planted on the rails after the last train passed just a few minutes before...
Quick on the Trigger. At 6 o'clock Easter morning, the three children rose to inspect Easter baskets and search for eggs in the house and later in the woods behind the presidential cottage. After breakfast, the grownups, dressed in their Easter finest, went to church. Afterward, the President laid the cornerstone for a new church building. A building contractor in the crowd commented on his dexterity with the silver trowel. "I used to do it on the farm," Ike explained with a grin...
Scandal No. 2 involved the home improvement loan program, known as Title I. Under this program, FHA guaranteed more than 16,500,000 loans to homeowners for repairs. With inadequate funds, and without permission from Congress to inspect each loan, the FHA had been forced to rely on the prudence of banks to uphold ethical standards. In many instances, the reliance was misplaced. Con men and crooked contractors have made millions from overevaluated loans for slapdash or nonexistent repairs...
...Injured Bystander. The mortgage scandals were clearly no fault of Hollyday's since Section 608 had lapsed in the Truman Administration, three years before he took office. In the Title I scandals, he had been hamstrung by FHA's inability to inspect the repair loans it was required by law to guarantee. Last fall Hollyday took the only course left to him: he issued regulations requiring banks to take more responsibility for loans, and asked the FBI to investigate abuses...
Kistiakowsky, along with another scientist at Los Alamos, was in charge of the final assembly of the bomb before the test. He and Bainbridge were the last men to inspect the weapon before it was detonated...