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A Lot of Laughs. Well he might have. Baker had long since begun to maneuver outside the Senate as well as in the cloakrooms. For one thing, he had acquired Carole Tyler as his secretary. Back home in Tennessee, she had won a "Miss Loudon County" award, and she was...
"Mr. President," said Mansfield, "I request that House bill 7152 be read the first time." The Senate clerk read the bill's title. "Mr. President," said Mansfield, "I object to the second reading of the bill today." Those two sentences were part of an elaborate parliamentary maneuver aimed at...
At 9 p.m. the big carrier reversed course, and it became the Voyager's duty to maneuver until she was once more astern of the Melbourne. The destroyer's captain, Duncan Stevens, 42, somehow placed his ship right across the Melbourne's bows. Taken by surprise, Stevens...
As Marion pointed out, the Quaker squad tends to be very strong. Penn had been using the fleche, a running approach, rather frequently--the maneuver is very hard to parry but predictable.
No Consultation. Washington sent Paris one of the briefest diplomatic notes on record, a curt, 150-word message that deplored the French maneuver as "unwise and untimely." Back came a five-line reply that stiffly acknowledged the U.S. note without bothering to give French reasons for the news. Presumably, De...