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...Lyndon started things with a real blast. In a chilling rain at Palatka, he touched off a 150-lb. dynamite charge to break ground for the 107-mile, $158 million Cross-Florida Barge Canal. Afterward, he stopped off in Palm Beach for a 20-minute visit with Joseph P. Kennedy, ailing father of the late President. Then he headed for Miami Beach...
That did not bother Bobby. He was growing bigger every day-too big, in fact, for his britches. Once, during this period, he told a group of visiting political-science scholars: "On any issue, I have at least ten Senators in the palm of my hand." At the same time, says a Senate aide, who watched Bobby's rise with some awe, "the lobbyists were swarming around his office like flies. They buttered him up, kept telling him how great he was, and I think a lot of his trouble now comes because he got to believing...
...microphone embedded in a bite-size rubber pad (1½ inches square, one-quarter inch thick) that can be carried in the investigator's palm, attached to an amplifier in his coat pocket; when pressed against a phone booth or a door, it relays the action through an earplug that looks like part of a hearing aid. Hotel dicks love...
...U.C.L.A. both Presidents donned cap and gown to receive honorary doctor of laws degrees. Later they flew to Palm Springs, called on Dwight Eisenhower (it was, said Ike, "just an evening with old friends") and settled down to private talks. The agenda inevitably included disarmament, the lagging Alliance for Progress, what to do about Panama and Cuba, but no treaties were signed, no formal decisions taken. Now that the Chamizal dispute on the Rio Grande has been settled, Mexico and the U.S. have few major outstanding disagreements. There is one issue - a minor one as international flaps go - that continues...
...founder in 1901 and president until 1941 of Sterling Drug, Inc., who began business in Wheeling, W. Va., and with brilliant marketing and an unerring eye for mergers parlayed Neuralgine, an analgesic, into a $250 million-a-year business (Novocain, Demerol, Bayer aspirin, Phillips Milk of Magnesia); in Palm Beach...