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...duty to stress the dark side of presidential life, certainly saw to it that the visiting dignitaries, and the routine papers they brought for the President to sign, were heralded in headlines. He produced them for interviews and at least once handed a Cabinet member a statement to read about how well Ike looked-before the man had even been in to see the President...
Though his tax program sounds like orthodox Fair Dealing, George Docking has made a political career out of being an offbeat Democrat in Republican Kansas (he regards himself as "a kind of cynic," likes to read Voltaire, Swift, Defoe). The son of a prosperous Kansas banker, Docking sold bonds for a few years after his graduation (A.B., economics) from the University of Kansas in 1925. Eventually he went into the family banking business, took over in 1942 as president of the First National Bank of Lawrence. He played his first political hand in 1952, as money-raiser for Adlai Stevenson...
When Teacher Ulferts read the theme, she thought it a bit on the morbid side, but did not take it too seriously at the time. An average student, young Ingledue had never caused any trouble. "He was," said Teacher Ulferts later, "a very quiet boy. Very quiet...
...trouble with liquid-fuel engines, says Ritchey, is their unreliability, which "is a matter of common knowledge to those who read newspapers." It is hard to make pump-fed engines much more powerful than they are now, and "the reliability of a single liquid-fuel engine is so low that even the most optimistic may quail at the idea of grouping more than a few turbopump systems into a clustered stage." Rocket engines using a solid propellant fire perfectly almost every time; they can be used in large clusters with expectation that all of them will do their duty...
...defects are inherited from the author-the schoolgirl longueurs on life, the Rimbaudelairean sentimentality about evil, the fashionable despairs with the Paris labels on them. But then the author has provided the vital thing in the picture too: a story that seizes the imagination and insists on being read not only as a story but as a symptom of one of the more exotic diseases of leisure...