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...corn, swam to the Ohio shore and pushed back watermelons, set trotlines for catfish and trapped muskrats for the local doctor, who was an abortionist and fur dealer on the side. For a while he had as partner a deaf ex-moonshiner who had done a stretch in the pen, and from him he got a recipe for making corn likker that is one of the highlights of the book...
...Violence is not only that of pistols and fists; that of the pen is more dangerous." -Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi
...Bruce M. Jeffris, president of Parker Pen Co. (1959 sales: $38 million), took over as chief executive officer as Board Chairman Kenneth Parker. 65, retired. Jeffris, 64, is the first chief executive outside the Parker family, but he is not expected to hold the distinction for long. Harvard-educated Daniel Parker, 35, grandson of the firm's founder, is now executive vice president, only a step away from the presidency...
...Texas' Omar Burleson, an ex-FBI agent and chairman of the purse-string Committee on House Administration, bought $86.45 worth of doodads (pen set, calendar-pad holder, etc.) for his office in Abilene, charged it off to his committee, even though he had received a specific $1,200 allowance for office supplies. On another occasion, Burleson traveled 1,128 miles by car to investigate "election matters" in Texas (his own district included), charged the trip off at 10? a mile...
...West Berlin." But for all his fury, his threats had qualifications-the kind of man who gets carried away, Khrushchev also is capable of the controlled tantrum. "When we do this is our business. When we deem it necessary, we won't hesitate. We'll pull the pen from our pock et, for the drafts are all ready, and sit down and sign and then announce...