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...been billed as a major U.S. policy address; some 1,600 West Berliners managed to cram themselves into space designed for only 1,200. But Bobby's speech had been edited to death. Work on it had begun a month before. President Kennedy had expressed a deep interest in it-and insisted on approving it before delivery. Even as Bobby flew from Rome (where he and Ethel had a cordial 25-minute audience with Pope John XXIII), White House Adviser Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was laboring away on a final draft. That draft was cabled to Washington for the President...
...stone should be attached to or become something else. In the case of the piano, he may instantly think of hands; the hands in turn suggest a ring and the ring a marriage. In the end the painting turns out to be a huge ring with a piano floating through it-and the whole thing is called The Happy Hand...
...hard-running halfback who could throw a pass on the run. "Hornung was the type of halfback I had to have," Lombardi says. "I made up my mind he was going to be it, and I said, 'Look, boy, this is your job. You take it.' " He took it-and neither Lombardi nor Hornung has regretted the decision. In 1959, the fired-up Packers moved out of the N.F.L. cellar, won seven games; last year, they won the Western Division title...
...only national check on the commission's decisions reposes in the Common Market's Council of Ministers-one from each of the Six. But it is a limited check at best. The council cannot initiate proposals to the commission, only pass on the commission's proposals to it-and it can modify them only by a unanimous vote. The commission usually prevails. In addition, the Six have also established a seven-man Court of Justice, which arbitrates technical disputes. The Six have set up a 142-member Parliament that meets periodically in Strasbourg, consists of parliamentarians elected...
...made no difference what ailed a man, or his wife, or his horse. The nostrum peddlers had a sure cure for it-and generally the same cure. With no legal restrictions, the patent medicine men made limitless claims. One ointment boasted that it could cure "ague in the face, swelled breasts, sore nipples, bronchitis, sore throats, quinsy, croup, felons, ringworms, burns, scalds, shingles, erysipelas, salt rheum, piles, inflammation of the eyes and bowels, bruises, fresh cut wounds, bilious cholic, scrofulous and milk-leg sores, inflammatory rheumatism and gout." Such was the gilded age of the patent medicine in America...