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...surrounding shacks lay dim in the dawnlike light of Arctic high noon one day last week. Suddenly the direct rays of the sun, unseen for more than a month, spilled over the bleak horizon and splashed against the top of the 127-ft. derrick. Getting a nod of assent from the driller, Eskimo Roughneck Elijah Allen, 22, darted to the derrick ladder and scampered up the frosted rungs. As he neared the top, he turned his happy moonface into the thin yellow light and yelled a piercing greeting...
...Democratic politics in Harlem, where, as a faithful Tammany Hall wheel horse, he won seven elections to the state assembly. Jack's jackpot came in 1953 when Tammany, forewarned of Republican plans to nominate a Negro for borough president of Manhattan, dumped two white hopefuls, gave Jack the nod. Elected and re-elected four years later, Hulan Jack stood as one of the nation's highest-ranking Negro officeholders-until last week, when he suspended himself after being indicted by a grand jury on charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and three violations of the city charter...
...successful in making himself understood. His warm grin is known around the earth, but in private his temper can flare with crackling, barracks-room fluency. He seems boundlessly friendly and outgiving, but White House insiders have long since grown used to having him pass in the halls without a nod or a word. He has seen and been seen by more crowds than any other man of his time, but in fact he dislikes crowds and is uncomfortable with them...
AUGUSTA, Ga., Nov. 16--President Eisenhower agreed tentatively today to a new 1962 military budget which proposes to trim manpower slightly while keeping defense spending at about the present $41 billion level. Modern weapons apparently will get the nod over personnel. Military manpower now is about 2 1/2 million. How much and where it might be pared was not disclosed...
Unbalanced Ferocity. This year they have made it. As a curt nod to modern times, Schwartzwalder has installed the winged-T. But basically the Syracuse attack is built around an anachronistic, unbalanced single-wing line that double-teams and cross-blocks with old-fashioned ferocity. To get the most out of his boys, Drillmaster Schwartzwalder relieves the pressure of practice with some heavyhanded, country-style kidding. "But there's no laughing on game days," he says...