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...little ahead). Sometimes, as along College Street in Springfield, Mo., she handshakes her way down the opposite side of the street from Dick; sometimes she chats with ladies' groups. She also sits in on the late-at-night sessions in which Nixon and his staff review the previous day's activities and plan for tomorrow. She says little, but what she does say is sound; e.g., she insisted that Nixon's advance men say nothing about the unscheduled handshaking stops for fear the local arrangers might try to set something up that would spoil the spontaneity...
Aides and close friends have sensed a profound change-or perhaps a crystallization of previous changes-in President Eisenhower since the campaign began. Said one of them last week: "The President seems to have reached a new plane of serenity, almost of self-detachment." Four years in the White House have sharpened his political ear, toughened his belief in himself as a political strategist. But along with this has come a new warmth and understanding. Gone are the occasional flashes of temper that were once the terror of his staff-and of his opponents. They have been replaced...
...written for children, cannot be created out of a meager vocabulary, much of it proper names (Mary, Jack) or names of common objects (chair, train, dish), especially if the author has to produce lessons in which each new word must be repeated ten times, and words learned in a previous lesson, five . . . Discriminating writers are usually quite unable to play this sort of game, so the modern readers are not written by writers, but by tailors of words to suit the methodology and keep the reading matter within the range of the average child's vocabulary as determined...
Eight new residents of Apley Court have expressed "tremendous satisfaction with their status as "non-resident residents," a result of the University's experiment of allowing a few previous commuters to live on campus this year...
...Apley experiment, according to Murphy, "offers more time to study--home is too much confusion." Lloyd stated that he can now use athletic facilities he had to forego in previous years...