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...such statements boosted the incident toward Sarajevo-like proportions, Clerk Braunspiegel, wild-haired and sad-eyed, a staunch middle-of-the-roader, sought to ease the tension. Mused he: "We should give in a little, Russia should give in a little . . . I don't know...
...last week, to no one's surprise, friendly, middle-of-the-roader Beauford Jester smacked out a home run to win the ball game with a two-to-one majority. His chief campaign promises: increased old-age pensions without increased taxes, a hearty welcome for all shades of warring Texas Democrats. To Rainey's last-minute charges of Ku Klux Klan backing, he quipped: "He has lost his fast ball, he has lost his curve ball. All he's got left is a mud ball...
Communist Boss Rakosi knew that the solution of these problems depended on Moscow, rather than Washington and London. Whenever the discussion touched Hungary's relations with Russia, middle-of-the-roader Nagy skirted skillfully, Communist Rakosi smiled a bland, gold-toothed smile...
...Under Secretary Dean G. Acheson of Groton and Yale, an impeccable lawyer, a man with an elastic mind, a political middle-of-the-roader. Next comes Counselor Ben Cohen, of the University of Chicago and Harvard, a thinker, a man of strong ideology (New Deal), a shy, unobtrusive worker who looks and acts more like a gentle professor than a man who has drafted most of the important new laws of the last decade...
...President's request promptly threw the spotlight on 63-year-old Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, and on 76-year-old Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee, the Senate's presiding officer. To U.S. citizens, middle-of -the -roader Sam Rayburn, 31 years in Congress, seemed reasonable enough as a presidential possibility. But they quailed at the thought of crotchety, patronage-grabbing Kenneth McKellar, whose striped trousers seemed almost his sole presidential qualification...