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...plenty of it. That is no way to run a senatorial primary campaign, so Glenn has assigned his pretty brunette wife Annie, 43, to act as his standin. Since Annie dislikes making public speeches, and stutters besides, she in turn has enlisted the help of her good friend Rene Carpenter, wife of Astronaut Scott Carpenter...
...still a Marine. The best the girls can do is to promote a sort of "John Glenn, American Boy" image and explain why, as they put it, "a good Christian man like John Glenn would do a grubby thing like entering politics." At a rally in Marysville, Rene Carpenter ticked off a long list of Glenn's virtues, cried, "Why must politics be something dirty? Why can't you believe that there is such a man-almost too good to be true? I know that maybe that's his flaw. We've heard the 'Jack...
Napoleon's Width. What rubs salt in the wound is that the French claim to have invented the automobile, either in 1873, when one Amedée Bollée built a steam car that was driven from Paris to Bordeaux, or in 1891, when Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor placed a German Daimler motor on a chassis and thus created the first true auto. France remained the center of the automotive world until World War I, when the U.S. forged ahead. But the ardor for cars has never dimmed, and with today's prosperity, French automakers sell...
...into every anthology a little of the obtuse and trite will creep. "Life Must Surpass Itself" by Rene Dubos was a piece I never made it through; one can stand only so many phrases such as "the responsibilities of the future" and "the spirit of human brotherhood." "The Revolution of the Women" delves into the problem of freedom as "a burden and a responsibility...
...Afterward the five-Antoine Pinay, Guy Mollet, Pierre Pflimlin, Rene Pleven and Rene Mayer-were invited to luncheon at the Metz prefecture by De Gaulle's representative, Minister of State Louis Joxe. But the ex-Premiers declined the invitation when they learned that Schuman's old friend Jean Monnet, who was also present, had been left out of the party...