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...years ago, Breda had found Frank's name and lonely appeal for friendship, bottled, on the beach near her cow pasture. Frank had tossed it overboard from a troopship. Ever since then, they had corresponded, and then Frank followed his heart and his aspirin bottle to Kerry. The press on both sides of the Atlantic tried to fan the romance into flame. Back in the U.S. last week, Frank suggested that the press had tried too hard. Said Frank: "The papers said she swam out to get my bottle when she really found it on the shore...
...well-being . . . Fate or the grace of God which saved us in two wars . . . cannot [be] building stones for a policy . . . At a time when Europe is in the midst of . . . political and ideological currents that nobody can ignore, neutrality . . . is a thing of the past, to be chucked overboard...
...years should be swept away." As for the Republican nomination: "Was it a conflict over policies and philosophies? Was it an effort to replace the Old Guard with the new?" Not at all, said Dever. "This was a battle between the stalwarts and the opportunists. An ungrateful crew threw overboard the faithful pilot . . . and placed at their head one whose knowledge of navigation was confined to other waters . . ." Eisenhower, said Dever, did his best work under Democratic Presidents, and otherwise is "entirely uninformed...
...Come Home." That rescue was only the first of Manning's many newsmaking exploits. He saved Flyer Lou Reichers after his plane had fallen into the Atlantic; twice, in port, he dived over the side for men overboard. He learned to fly, made Sunday inspections of his ship from the air, and blasted the crew next day if he found anything not shipshape...
...convinced that the survival of our American way of life depends to a large degree on our ability to see and correct the evils of our existing institutions, sooner than to throw our system overboard in favor of any one of the many forms of Utopia which our Washington D.C. reformers and some collaborators in university classrooms are trying to foist upon...