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...RASCAL MISSILE, an air-to-surface, electronically guided rocket that carries a nuclear warhead, will go into limited production. Bell Aircraft Corp. has been awarded $22 million in Air Force contracts to make and test prototypes...
...Bell has never forgotten that his big job is turning a profit for stockholders. This year Bell will do some $200 million business (profit: more than $6,000,000) without making a single conventional plane. Instead, Bell has 94 military contracts, including its own Rascal air-to-ground guided missile...
When Charles II visited his wealthy mistress, Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, and surprised her in bed with bone-poor Ensign Jack Churchill, the monarch kept his head and, addressing the young man, said: "You are a rascal, but I forgive you, for you do it to get your bread." How right Charles was may be seen by the fact that after a year or two of bundling with Barbara and shrewdly investing her handouts, Churchill had founded the fortunes of his family and embarked on one of the most glamorous careers in British history...
Republicans cheerfully accepted the challenge to debate the issue of evil in government operation. In cold fury, Dwight Eisenhower replied to Truman and Stevenson at his news conference. "America," he snapped, "believes I am honest, that I am not a rascal, that I am not a racketeer." Added Richard Nixon at Gettysburg: "We'll be glad to compare the moral standards of the Eisenhower Administration to the Truman Administration any time of the day or night...
...will you stoop so low as to air the garments of an old rascal-an atheist-such as Sigmund Freud? Your story was superbly done, but have you ever paused to consider that ". . . the rowdyism, riot and revolt of the youth" can be laid at the doorstep of Freud & Co. You could make another bundle and lay it at the front stoop of the National Education Association-they picked up the ball and recast it as progressive (permissive) education...