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...managed to be pretty funny in his new role, although doubtless not as comical as the fellow his practical jokers once threw into a lake, alive, weighted down with slot machines. At 55, Al was ripe for the part; he had grown rich, fleshy, imperious and sentimental on the rewards of death. He wore the big tipper's air of assurance as he walked into the bright, mirrored, roomy barber shop and ordered a haircut; he closed his eyes contentedly as he felt the clippers on his thick neck. He was completely oblivious of two dark, sallow...
...Across town from the executive mansion, U.S. District Judge Davies was reading a 400-page report prepared for him by the FBI, which had 50 agents comb the Little Rock situation. The report showed not a shred of evidence supporting Faubus' claim that Little Rock had been ripe for violence. Example: where Faubus had said Little Rock stores were selling out of knives and pistols ("mostly to Negro youths"), the FBI agents checked 100 shops, found that weapon sales had actually been below normal. The report read, Judge Davies issued a summons commanding Faubus to appear in his court...
First is the strong conviction among many Syrians that Khaled Bakdash is prepared to invoke his Moscow training and try to unseat Old Friend Hourani when the time is ripe; if this fails, then Bakdash will dash back to Moscow. Second, and still more important, is the fact that...
RESTLESS combines growled and rattled across the rippling wheat fields of the Northwest. In the South, newly picked cotton sped through gins and balers. Midwestern farmers sweated in fields of hay and ripe, yellow oats. Across the nation, the yearly harvest was under way, and despite drought in the Northeast, the worst in 35 years or more, many a U.S. farmer could agree with Fred Hill of Umatilla County, Ore. Pushing back his Stetson, lanky Farmer Hill, 44, cast an admiring eye over a field of ripened wheat and said with a grin: "The Lord's been good...
...everybody agreed it would be a good thing to vote it out of the bill-to "clarify the atmosphere," as Knowland put it. The atmosphere was clarified by a vote of 90 to 0. But so, to Lyndon Johnson, was the fact that Knowland was on the defensive, and ripe to be pushed even more in the direction of the Southern position...