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Lewis' relation to his second wife, the formidable Columnist Dorothy Thompson, was a mixture of admiration and antipathy. Lewis made a dining-out anecdote of the time when one Sunday morning he and Dorothy were in bed and the telephone rang. It was the President of the U.S., Franklin D. Roosevelt. Lewis passed the phone to his wife next to him, and for half an hour he had to listen while she straightened out the nation's affairs-with the wire across his throat...
...Plymouth Inn at Ocean City, N.J., a political reception was in full swing when a telephone rang in the anteroom. A woman answered it, then returned to the reception. "Who," she asked, "is Richard J. Hughes...
...appointed afternoon, Boza's church and the narrow, cobbled streets surrounding it were packed with 4,000 people. A few began to call out "Cuba Si, Rusia No"-and "Libertad." Before long, the chants swelled into a continuing roar. A group of youths climbed the church belfry and rang the bells, but they could barely be heard. The demonstration went on for three hours, mounting in intensity as the crowd chanted "Down with Castro!" One Havana police captain wormed his way into the church, confronted Boza, then startled everyone by ripping off his insignia of rank and saying...
Decay Now, Collapse Later. Throughout rang the repeated cries that the "decayed capitalist shell" is about to break, that "socialism will inevitably succeed capitalism everywhere." Communism's more modest aim is still to catch up with its capitalist rival, the U.S. Curiously, Khrushchev's document has dropped the Soviet pretense that overall industrial output will soon match U.S. production. His target for 1970 is a 150% increase, which would hardly more than equal the U.S. 1960 level. And by 1970, the U.S. itself will have pushed production far above today's mark-barring, of course, the complete...
Following the customers onto the highways, the S.P. runs a fleet of trucks that rang up profits of $900,000 for the first half of 1961.* Under Russell, the S.P. has also built, for $60 million, more than 1,500 miles of pipelines that move 26 million bbl. of oil products yearly from California to points as far east as El Paso. The railroad even sells airline tickets from its own far-flung ticket counters, and now Don Russell is petitioning the ICC for permission to buy a 50% interest in the John I. Hay barge lines on the Mississippi...