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...Power. When Gene campaigned for a second term, 21-year-old Herman made a rousing maiden political speech at Rebecca, Ga., helped his father carry every county but three. As governor, Gene booted out his motor vehicles commissioner for refusing to cut prices on automobile licenses to $3 on Gene's say-so. When the public-service commission would not lower utility rates, Gene ordered the commissioners to trial before him, found them guilty of using railroad passes, as punishment replaced them with his own men. His most outrageous move came after the state treasurer refused to dole...
...almost obsolete campaign train, which will be revived fitfully this month, was relished by none: it once meant days on end without showers, air conditioning or stationary sleep. But the new prop-stop technique creates tighter, more ambitious travel schedules and a clutter of motor cade side trips, makes it far tougher to get a story written-and to file between the incommunicado hours aloft...
...artificial satellite on an orbit around the earth is in "free fall." So is a rocket cruising through space with its motor cold. People on board a satellite or rocket would feel weightless, and space medicine experts have long feared that unaccustomed freedom from gravitation will upset human organs or nerves...
...Sunday morning a combination treasure hunt, weekend outing, and driving test will get underway from the water pump at the B-School. Approximately 60 miles later the hardier members of the Harvard Motor Sports Club should be relaxing at the Thompson raceway in Thompson, Conn. They will have completed their first rally of the year...
...make their job more nerve-wracking, rally planners have devised tortuous ways of indicating the routes. This Sunday, for example, the Motor Sports Club will provide each entrant with photographs depicting the various turn-offs...