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...nine magazine articles on the road. Unable to read his minute reporter's scribble, he could never have finished the assignment if willowy, tough-fibered Jane had not been along. She scrawled notes on interviews, digested reams of background material, took thousands of photographs for Gunther to pore over back in Manhattan...
...Obviously, what we need is a space czar. Who is a natural for the job? Senator Johnson of Texas. Why? Because space is what they have most of in Texas; secondly, he should have no trouble in getting confirmed by the Senate. From the way he treats those other "pore" Southern Senators, they should be glad to have him off their backs...
...marquise, porcelain-cheeked Dana Wynter, whose "lovely hands drooped down like lilies on either side," coped with blackmail and adultery with equally exquisite calm. Far flashier was Director John Frankenheimer, whose busy directorial conceits-trick angles, mirror shots, closeups to the pore, camera peeps through iron grilles, even the little photographer's aperture-often upstaged the work itself while accenting its hollow passion. Sometimes the tricks of the director, working in tandem with the star-crossed lovers and their rococo surroundings, were more attention-catching than the story...
...While its satellites go their way, the foundation goes about its own business of dispensing millions from its hushed, grey-carpeted headquarters in a sleek new office building on Madison Avenue. There a staff of 20 educators, 17 former government workers, twelve former businessmen, eight journalists and two lawyers pore over projects with an earnest and refreshingly optimistic determination to do what they can for the world. These projects can emerge in various ways-from a casual conversation at a cocktail party, from a request by some scholar or university, or from some great scheme cooked up by the staffmen...
...will pore for hours over his speech, writing, switching, scratching (quips a friend: "He would rather be writer than President"). When he steps before his audience, he tightens up, his throat constricts and his voice rises. His gestures and his smile become mechanical. The speech comes from cerebration, from Choate and Princeton and Plato, from Seneca and Government reports−rarely from the heart. Even in his studied attempts to be down to earth, he sounds like a professor laying down the day's lecture for the class...