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...trailing Vinson into the Congressman's private office: "Yes, sir." Twenty minutes later, Carl Vinson emerged, hat on head and cane in hand, and tossed a final instruction over his shoulder. "Fix it up," said he, "so I can read it tomorrow." With that, he went home, leaving Nate Twining to work on a revised version of the Eisenhower Administration's plan for reorganizing the Defense Department...
...standing ovation from most of the 150 Congressmen in the chamber. And it was in the face of such obviously growing sentiment for reorganization that Carl Vinson, above all else an eminently realistic politician, began backing down in his announced determination to scuttle the Eisenhower plan, started working with Nate Twining on a revision that would be acceptable both to the Administration and to Congress...
...faced a season of play restricted to public courses. A likely looking 19-year-old sophomore who had transferred from Doane College, Crete, Neb. seemed certain to make the team-and just as sure not to be welcome at Denver's private clubs. The promising golfer is named Nate Goldstein. He is a Negro...
...Dickie Loeb, who, in Leopold's recollections, speaks a weirdly dated slang. It is with a kind of horror that the modern reader finds an appalling crime described in a debased Tom Swift idiom. Writes Leopold: "Dick was in high spirits . . . 'That'll be a snap. Nate. Nothing to it.' " Says Loeb to Leopold, as they are planning to collect ransom for Bobby Franks: "Hey, this is neat, Nate-hey, I'm a poet!" When headlines announce: BODY OF BOY FOUND IN SWAMP, Loeb asks: "What'cha think, Nate? When are these damn papers...
...office (all security-cleared because they are in a position to overhear top-secret conversations). Then McElroy began the breakneck round of business that has not since let up: he held a brief press conference, discussed the fiscal 1959 defense budget with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nate Twining, was briefed by Defense Department Comptroller Wilfred McNeil on the National Security Council meeting scheduled for the next morning...