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...grasped my lapel firmly in one hand while pushing her petition at me with the other. "I know you're a busy man and all that, but this is something that our state really needs. This here favoritism has got to stop...
...worrywart reporters covering President Eisenhower's holiday at the Augusta National Golf Club last week began to get on Press Secretary James C. Hagerty's nerves. Hagerty finally handed out lapel buttons reading "Relax." That was hard for the reporters to do, and even harder for Dwight Eisenhower. Most of his Georgia vacation was spent working, worrying and waiting...
...nine-man, Swiss-type National Council, with Batlle Berres slated to be the first council president. His opponents charged that he is against the "multi-person executive," which replaced the office of President in 1952, and will try to get himself voted sole President again. Campaigning with his favorite lapel decoration, a sprig of pine, Batlle Berres promised simply to encourage industrialization and higher farm production. His record shows that he approves of Uruguay's mild socialism, disapproves of his powerful Argentine neighbor Juan Peron, in general likes...
Last spring Nebraska's Governor Robert B. Crosby roamed about his state for 9,000 miles, handing out 30,000 "Operaton Honesty" lapel buttons (TIME, March 15). His aim was to encourage full, honest returns on personal property for taxation, and thereby to lighten the heavy tax burden on real estate. Last week Crosby's own State Tax Department totted up the year's personal property assessments, and found that the patient had failed to respond to the operation. Total personal property reported by individual taxpayers was $433 million, 15% below last year. Looking over the county...
Dumb Loyalty. Nicholas Ploumbides knew all this when he went to trial in July 1953, but his loyalty was unswerving. He appeared in, court daily in a well-pressed white linen suit and a red carnation in his lapel.; Greek Communism, he told the court, owed its allegiance to the Kremlin and Nico Zachariades. He took the stand only once in the nine-day proceedings. Then, toughing softly into a bloodstained handkerchief, he limited his remarks to a textbook eulogy of world Communism and an attack on "American imperialism...