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...nice dainty underwear in their suitcases, and here I got twelve bottles of booze." She served in Casablanca, Algiers and for 13 months on Corsica, getting to know a lot of military airmen. She claims that she "used to fly P-47s sitting on the pilot's lap...
Even Thieu's supporters were finding that argument difficult to rebut. Doc Lap, a Saigon newspaper that has generally supported the government in the past, expressed the mood in a poem addressed to Nixon...
Amidst all the administrative cat and mouse play which unfortunately left the ball resting in Whitlock's lap. Gensler and Farago resigned from People Switchboard, as pledged, and with the exception of a bare minimum of publicity work, they ceased to work in any major capacity on the project. The two seniors were no longer willing to continue their major effort unless they could be assured by the Administration that the project had a future in Harvard College. Following his resignation, Gensler told Whitlock that continuing to man the Switchboard as they had would be like "beating a dead horse...
...lap, Haydon, who had been trailing Baughman for most of the later stages of the race, pulled ahead, but Baughman hung on and came back in the final lap to touch Haydon out amidst some atypical top-of-the-lungs screaming from the Harvard crowd. "Hell, I wasn't going to let him get me after I had been leading the whole race," Baughman said afterwards...
...weeks earlier...now switched. "Because this man," said the Reverend Mr. King Senior, "was willing to wipe the tears from my daughter (in-law's) eyes. I've got a suitcase of votes, and I'm going to take them to Mr. Kennedy and dump them in his lap."... When one reflects that Illinois was carried by only 9,000 votes and that 250,000 Negroes voted for Kennedy, that South Carolina was carried by 10,000 votes and that an estimated 40,000 Negroes voted for Kennedy, the candidate's instinctive decision must be ranked among the most crucial...