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...answers about when, how and at what cost the U.S. could catch up with the U.S.S.R. in man-in-space prowess. "I don't care where you get the answers," said Kennedy. "If the janitor over there can tell us, ask him." Next Kennedy appeared before the Congress to deliver an unusual midyear State of the Union message. He asked for a $9 billion program to put a man on the moon by 1971, and he placed that request, in a manner smacking more of Hollywood and Vine than of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, close...
...police investigation revealed nothing, and Webster no doubt breathed a sign of relief. But he failed to consider Ephraim Littlefield, his janitor. On Wednesday Littlefield attacked the bricked-up vault in the basement with a chisel. Two days later he finally broke through the wall. "I managed to get my light and my head into the hole, and then I was not disturbed with the draft. I held my light forward, and the first thing which I saw was the pelvis of a man, and two parts of a leg. I knew that it was no place for these things...
...Sherman Adams as top assistant to Dwight Eisenhower in 1958, managed to land three more Government employees in hot water. Scarcely had the Boston industrialist been ensconced in Danbury, Conn., federal prison to begin a year-and-a-day stretch for tax evasion, when three of its staff-a janitor, a machinist and a cook-were suspended for helping him keep up illicit correspondence with friends on the outside. As for the gregarious Goldfine, he landed in "segregation," pending investigation of the alleged letter smuggling...
Cold Wind in August (Troy; Aidart), a rutty melodrama about a thirtyish stripteaser (Lola Albright) who falls in love with a 17-year-old janitor's son (Scott Marlowe), does not merely invite cynicism, it drags cynicism in off the street and loosens its tie. Obviously, the film will be a financial success, because it is loaded with skin-on-skin sex. No cynicism here, nor in the observation that part of the film's distinct, if flawed, artistic success is due to a tight budget...
Deeply impressed was Student Norville, the hard-pressed son of a North Carolina tobacco farmer, who finally hit college and Slosson at the age of 21. Working his way through Michigan ('30) as a headwaiter, a janitor and a chauffeur, Norville was so stimulated by Slosson's lectures that he has wallowed in history ever since. Now senior partner in his own prosperous Chicago law firm. Norville has read "several hundred" history books, from Churchill to Toynbee, and naturally his two daughters have taken Slosson, too. "The fellow was just terrific," says Norville. "With the possible exception...