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...Kennedy, but Kennedyites sensed that Nixon had landed what they called an "emotional" punch in the exchange over Quemoy and Matsu. Said Jack: "Will somebody please get Jackie on the phone?" Richard Nixon, heading down Nebraska Avenue toward his Wesley Heights home, stopped at a traffic light, heard a motorist shout through the window: "You really clobbered him tonight." When he got home, one of his daughters met him at the door. "Daddy," cried she, "you did great!" A more impersonal reaction might have to wait until...
...travel-weary U.S. motorist has been conditioned to think of food-and a chance to let the kids out of the car-when he spots a roof of bright orange tile along the highway. This "landmark for hungry Americans" is the trademark of Howard Dearing Johnson, a onetime cigar salesman who has become a part of Americana (teenagers call his places "Hojos") by catering to the common denominator of U.S. taste and haste. Johnson, 63, not only controls the world's largest restaurant chain (607), but has set up motor lodges in 24 states, now sells frozen and canned...
...swirled through the banner-filled streets as the radio blared cha-cha tunes especially composed for the occasion. To the surprise of many whites who expected pillaging and insults from the newly independent blacks, there was universal interracial politeness, even open camaraderie -with a few humorous exceptions: one white motorist driving along a main road was suddenly confronted by a earful of Congolese who skidded through an intersection shouting hilariously "Mind the citizens!" The only serious growls came from across the river in the French Congo, where Premier Abbe Fulbert Youlou complained that the Belgian Congolese had niched the same...
Wayward Buss. In Aberdeen, Scotland, the road of romance proved rocky for Motorist George Guyan when he stole a kiss from Frances Crocker, smashed into a tree, causing her to break an ankle and lose four teeth...
Skirting Justice. In Vancouver, B.C., Motorist James Robertson, 22, accused of leaving the scene of an accident, told the court that "I was afraid my wife would find out I had been out with another woman," won a dismissal...