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...problem, it was also the truth. Bluff Edgar Eisenhower, a popular and respected member of Tacoma's legal community, loves to recall how he and Dwight (two years younger) used to fight "for the sheer joy of slugging one another." In fact, he still boasts that he can lick young Dwight any time, any place-a statement that Ike heartily denies...
...just not good enough," insisted a CBS executive. "We never discussed the script from the point of view of its subject matter. Our decision was based simply on our feeling that it wasn't a successful script. We just couldn't lick some of the creative problems." Retorted the author, John Secondari, head of ABC's Washington news bureau and himself a commentator: "I absolutely believe that it is a matter of CBS policy, not a question of dramatic merit...
Coach Bill McCurdy is as much at a loss to explain this phenomenon as anyone. He compared his team to the "Little Engine That Could." They believed that they were the best team in the league and could lick any other team on any specified afternoon. They were almost cocky," he explained with understandable pride...
They have shown that they can lick the strongest of their neighbors. They have shown up the extent of Soviet penetration in the Middle East by capturing huge stockpiles of tanks, guns and motorized equipment. They have shown up the hollowness of Nasser's vaunted four-power pact, signed just before the Sinai invasion, by which Syrian, Saudi and Jordanian troops were supposed to march under Egyptian command. And the first frightened session of desert kings that convened after the Sinai rout in Beirut last November signaled a shift which may well make last week's Cairo session...
Idyl's End. There are quiet nights as the hunters sit silently with their rifles awaiting the antlered deer at a salt lick; they go spear fishing in the forest rivers, wake to brilliant mornings when billions of dewdrops shimmer like miniature suns, and huddle in the winter snugness of their clay-walled home with its roaring Russian stove. The climax of the year is the tiger hunt, when dogs and men go out to track down young cats and wrestle them into submission. And through this rhythmic cycle of the seasons, love springs up between Hryhory and Natalka...