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...been halted by the ravages of wild elephants which rip up the road beds and tear down the bridges, but the Bhutanese don't mind at all. In fact they like it that way, and if by chance a foreigner wishes to brave the nine-day journey by mule-back over the mountains into Bhutan, he must first get a special invitation from the King himself. The King is very careful about choosing the people he invites to Bhutan...
...Springfield, Mass, last week, Dwight Eisenhower told one of the few jokes of his campaign. It was the story about the colonel who asked for a promotion on the grounds of long experience in the service. The commanding officer refused and said: "Do you see that mule over there? He has been in that battery for 25 years, and he is still a mule." Ike used the story to illustrate the difference between real experience and mere endurance in office...
Eisenhower himself has picked up more real political experience than many politicians (of the mule variety) get in a lifetime. Not that he started from scratch. When Eisenhower, nearly 62, took off his uniform last June and started campaigning, he had a lifetime of experience in dealing with people, cliques, passions, ideologies and issues. The U.S. Army does not run without politics; the commander in chief of the largest military coalition in history cannot command (and win) without political maneuvering, and the officer charged with transforming an international paper army into reality cannot do that job, as Eisenhower did, without...
...social satire. The picture not only provides Guinness with a subdued, well-rounded characterization but also gives him an opportunity to indulge in a full measure of comedy falls-from hurtling headlong into a canal atop a careering van to racing around in an old cart behind a runaway mule. Glynis Johns as a dancing teacher and Valerie Hobson as the countess stroll attractively through their roles. One of the Bursley townsfolk remarks of Denry: "He's a rare 'un . . . But what's he done? Has he ever done a day's work in his life...
Starting with what he later described as "a one-horse shop-one Negro and one mule," Ingalls built his blacksmith and forging business into Alabama's Ingalls Iron Works, biggest independent steel fabricator in the South. He branched out into shipbuilding, and wartime orders built his Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. of Pascagoula, Miss, into the largest shipyard on the Gulf Coast. Last year the combined enterprises grossed more than...