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...personal interest in, and compassion with, the problems which face the nation. Liberal quotations from his speeches, past or present, should be used ... It is also to be kept in mind that, in making announcements of local projects, the President should be given a credit line in the lead paragraph...
...Nephew sets out to disown both the technique and theme of Malcolm. The first paragraph shows us that a different, more conservative Purdy is writing...
President Kennedy's decision to cancel the development of a nuclear-powered military airplane brought howls of consternation from several airframe, engine and electronics manufacturers. In a terse paragraph in his defense budget message to Congress, the President favored dropping the 15-year-old project because, although $1 billion has been lavished on the program, "the possibility of achieving a militarily useful aircraft in the foreseeable future is still very remote." The U.S., he went on, would have to spend at least another billion "to achieve the first experimental flight." The President proposed to shunt "the entire subject matter...
...much the same reason, McCalla's suicide is only mildly tragic. In a long paragraph at the end, and once or twice during the proceedings, Halberstam indicates that the new sheriff was caught between duty to his supporters (father, preacher, frigid and nagging wife) on the one hand, and, on the other, a desire to say the hell with it all (frigid and nagging wife). Although he flatly and ethically rejects Angelo's offer of five thousand dollars a year, in return for a certain averting of the eyes, he goes for Claudia, the prostitute, like an alcoholic...
This seems to me a deliberate misrepresentation. The sentence is taken out of a paragraph which deals with the sanctions available in case of Communist violations of a test ban. Its point was that in case of Soviet violation we might have nothing to test, and that the sanction of our abrogating the ban would not be effective. The full paragraph, which appears on pages 269 and 270, reads as follows...