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...traveling at Nixon's side: "At last I'm allowed to keep a pencil and a comb. It seemed Kennedy kept me stripped of both articles. In the crushes for autographs, Kennedy has never been known to have a pencil of his own." Another fine point, twangs Iowan Sidey: "It is good to get back with those who speak English. After nine months with all those Boston Irishmen, I was beginning to say 'paaak' for 'park,' and 'Americker' for 'America...
Guns in the Basement. Hughes, 35, an Iowan who spent 16 years in the Army, showed up in Washington as a civilian in 1953 looking for a job as a McCarthy investigator. He never got it; but that was how he described himself, according to the prosecution, when he called on Democrat Fritchey, promising sensational disclosures because he was "disillusioned." Fritchey paid Hughes for months of "research." When that failed to produce any legal evidence against McCarthy, Fritchey bade Hughes goodbye...
They turned for guidance, as if by instinct, to Assistant Secretary Wilfred McNeil, a handsome, blue-eyed Iowan whose fiscal talents won him a reserve rear admiral's rank during World War II. McNeil was brought in by Forrestal to supervise the defense budget, and had done the job for every Secretary of Defense since. He appealed to Wilson and Kyes because he could talk their language-production phasing, subcontracting, economic units. He was a storehouse of facts & figures about the armed services, and little short of a magician when it came to budgetary techniques...
Previously, the 215-pound Iowan had run in all all-sophomore backfield which included Dick Clasby at tailback, John Tulenko at wingback, and Bill Weber at quarterback...
...corrective. Said one national farm leader: "We can't say officially that the price drop is a good thing. But it is. The farmers have known that runaway inflation is dangerous to them. That's why you don't hear much grumbling." Said Bill Davidson, an Iowan who went to Europe last fall with 21 other farmers for a hard, first-hand look at conditions: "We needed to get hurt, if we didn't get set for this...