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...Eisenhower for ten minutes. Then he bustled over to the State Department and signed the now standard Mutual Military Assistance Agreement* with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in a ceremony which lasted 3½ minutes. ("Well, that's all there is to it," Dulles was heard to mutter as he put down his pen and stood...
...thanks, he started back again. On the second trip he rescued seven. The third time he was gone for more than an hour, and when he finally returned with nine more, he was moving very slowly. "Help me. My legs . . . Help me," the people on dry land heard him mutter. His exposure suit was badly ripped when they dragged him out. Another five minutes in the icy water might well have proved fatal, said a doctor. But Reis Leming was not bothered. Next day, once again he was back helping the rescuers. One fact made the job more difficult: Reis...
...harder time explaining their position. Southern Methodist's Rusty Russell, who bosses a 150-man squad, sputtered: "I don't like it . . . Who's going to keep books on the players?" Wisconsin's Ivy Williamson, whose team lost in the Rose Bowl, could only mutter that "football won't be the same without the two-platoon system. It made for a better game." Said Ohio State's Woody Hayes, whose goman squad gets its practice for only an hour and 20 minutes daily: "We simply cannot train a boy to play offense and defense...
...people who pound their fists and mutter aphorisms about smoke and fire ignore the breadth of Acheson's work. Between his becoming Undersecretary and now, the free world was forced to recognize one of the most unpalatable truths in recent times--the inescapable danger of modern Russia. As the Secretary of State, Acheson was the one primarily responsible for solving the vast problems that appeared during the transition from hope to reality. He had to determine the very premises of policy, as well as the policies themselves...
...witness after bitter witness testified against him, Provoo sat in court, writhing at the accusations. He was heard frequently to mutter curses under his breath-or possibly one of those wild Buddhist chants...