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...snide remark was unfair. Truman frequently got advice from Pendergast, all right, but just as frequently he disregarded it. Even F.D.R. thought Truman was in Pendergast's pocket; he asked the Missouri boss to get Truman's vote for Alben Barkley as Senate Majority Leader. Truman voted for Pat Harrison, observing: "They better learn downtown right now that no Tom Pendergast or anybody else tells Senator Truman how to vote." Re-elected to the Senate in 1940, he soon launched the Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program-the Truman Committee-which was to help carry...
LAUGHING ALLEY. (592 Comm. Ave.) Pocket Mime Circus, Thurs...
...organ of the archdiocese of Philadelphia. Last June the campaign paid off: the liberal bill was easily defeated, and the conservative bill was adopted by both houses and sent to Shapp for his signature. Mullen warned the Governor that if he attempted to stop the bill through veto or pocket veto he would run against him in the Democratic primary next year...
...will remain in orbit around the moon while Schmitt and Cernan explore the lunar surface. Unlike earlier command pilots, he will not be totally alone. In lunar orbit with him will be the participants in a medical experiment to determine the effects of cosmic rays on space travelers: five pocket mice...
Culture Shock. Until she finds a man who can put her in his pocket and also let her out, Liv's involvements are few-and quiet. There is a French writer in her recent past; in the U.S. she has seen Warren Beatty a few times, but he does not appear to be the someone whom Liv "cares about very much" right now. "Going to bed is something serious," she says. "I don't want to have shared it with too many." Liv devotes much of her attention to Linn, who, with a nanny, travels to her locations...