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Since then, deposed King Saud has stubbornly remained inside his palace, comforted by his numberless wives and concubines, and encouraged by his sons. The throne, he said, "was given me by God and my father, and no one can take it away from me." Some of Feisal's advisers suggested cutting off the electric power to Naziriyah Palace, which would automatically shut down the air-conditioning plant, said to be the world's largest after that of the Pentagon in Washington. The sweltering heat, they argued, would bring Saud to his senses. But Feisal refused to take personal...
...election campaigns have developed into bitter crusades to save the state's political soul. California now claims more inhabitants and wealth than any other state, and the incredible population influx has uprooted political traditions and machinery as ruthlessly as it has the landscape, Into the void have flowed numberless partisan cults, from the Birchism of range Country to the Negro Communism of the Los Angeles ghetto...
...Fair of the century opened with a splash. Water squirted, spurted, sprayed and gushed from the Fountain of the Planets and the Fountains of the Fairs, from the Astral, Solar and Lunar Fountains, the Fountain of the Continents and the Fountains of Progress; it rippled and trickled in numberless lakes, lagoons, canals and reflecting pools. And on opening day it dripped endlessly from the cold, grey clouds that dimmed the visibility of the helicopters and dampened the spirits of the groundlings...
...Justice Department has put numberless grand juries to work trying to dig up dirt on Teamsters Union Boss Jimmy Hoffa. During the past seven years, Hoffa was haled into federal courts four times on various charges-and four times he walked away laughing. But last week Justice Department Aide Walter Sheridan bolted out of a Chattanooga federal courtroom and put in a telephone call to his boss. "We made it!" Sheridan barked happily. "Nice work," said Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who has been making the downfall of Hoffa a principal target of his considerable zeal for seven years. Now Bobby...
...important documentary of Dr. Eisenhower's personal involvement in the Tractors for Freedom Committee disappears as another inessential anecdore. To call the work political science is to misrepresent it. It is more accurately the saga of an American diplomat whose yankee charm shows clearly through his narrative's numberless personal stories...