Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warming up for the new campaign, Old Earl ordered posters, stamped envelopes and 100,000 pocket combs. In the months ahead, Earl will shun television ("It makes me look like a monkey climbing a string"), happily concentrate on crossroads appearances in Louisiana's 64 parishes, whip up shouts of "Pour it on 'em, Earl...
...field of eleven tentative opponents, Old Earl's chief problem probably will be New Orleans' handsome, hard-working Mayor DeLesseps Morrison (TIME, Jan. 30, 1956), who lost to Long under an avalanche of upcountry votes in 1956. So confident is Earl of winning ("I wanna give that little squirt Della Soups Morrison one more beating") that he is even trying statesmanship. To a crowd gathered for a bridge dedication at Natchitoches he solemnly suggested that the Governor's office be put under civil service. Knowing Earl, remembering Huey, the crowd just laughed...
...with the ear of Charlie Wilson and later of Neil McElroy, courteous, forceful Donald Quarles made enemies. He refused to favor old Air Force friends, chopped their budget as severely as the Army's and Navy's. From Quarles's office came the orders for cutbacks and stretch-outs in defense contracts, for a slowdown on wild-blue-yonder research, for an end to competitive missile programs-all to keep the Defense budget within bounds while the U.S. maintained a weapons "sufficiency...
...backyard pile of "rodent feces mixed with straw and trash and debris to approximately half a ton." But Aaron Frank refused to let the inspector in the house without a warrant. After Inspector Gentry was kept out a second time, Householder Frank was fined $20, under a 158-year-old city ordinance giving health officers the right of daytime inspection without a warrant...
Intimidated by the Russian hoods and not sure whether, because of his diplomatic status, they could do something to help him, the nurses did nothing. Finally, exhausted, Stryguine turned to the nurses with pleading eyes and said, "I have a 14-year-old daughter back in Russia...