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...Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, who has come to know more about running a tram than most railroad presidents, writhe in professional pain. The Willkie train often pulled out of wayside stations with reporters still standing on the tracks, and Wendell Willkie, thinking they were voters, waved farewell from the rear platform. When Jim Hagerty was press secretary to Tom Dewey a few years later, an officious Dewey aide ordered a train to move out while eight reporters were still rushing to clamber aboard. Hagerty dashed up ahead of the train, planted his foot on the track, forcing the engineer...
...steelworkers in a snowstorm outside the Capitol. Before his subcommittee paraded big-name witnesses, ranging from the Rockefeller Report's Nelson Rockefeller ("Unless present trends are reversed, the world balance of power will shift in favor of the Soviet bloc") to the Navy's snappish, hard-driving Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear submarine ("I think everybody in the military should be doing things as if we were really...
...Subcommittee, answered questions with a candor that made senatorial friends, and in detail that showed he had done his homework. He stepped confidently into the high society of international diplomacy, went to London and Bonn and wound up at the NATO conference in Paris beside-if slightly to the rear of-President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles...
...patrol car, chased her about a mile, finally slowed down as his speedometer indicated 100 m.p.h. Just then he saw the Chevrolet start to weave back and forth across the three southbound lanes of the parkway. On one wild weave to the right it smashed into the rear of a Thunderbird convertible hugging the curbside, shattered it. The Thunderbird's driver, 47-year-old Richard Sperling, a Connecticut laundry manager and father of two, died instantly. The Chevrolet swerved onto a shoulder, rolled over four times. Christine was only dazed when she was dragged out. She stayed overnight...
...used on thousands of farms-performed magnificently. The only serious trouble was with a generator, but forethoughtful Sir Edmund had a spare along. The expedition had a little trouble with crevasses, but the tractors proved to have unexpected crevasse-detecting talents. Most of their weight is carried on the rear wheels, so when the front wheels sank into the snow over a crevasse, the driver had a good chance of backing...