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...having fun," says "Scoop" Jackson. "I'm speaking my mind." A huge picture of Seattle is spread across his wall, and there is Grand Coulee Dam at night, and his coffee table is a slice of a Western tree. He is an easy and sensible man. Tougher than his exterior. There is a sameness about Jackson that plagues him. For so long he has been the champion of the aircraft industry. "Mr. Boeing." Somehow he is that image of the perpetual proponent of military preparedness. There is something of mothballs about it: cold warrior in the year...
...name Scoop when he peddled the Everett Herald in the red-light district. He went back as prosecuting attorney and cleaned the place up. Nowadays he quotes Churchill, who worried about America's inner strength and ability to "stay the course." He has read Mao and studied the lives of all the top Russians, and so he thinks we ought to keep our weapons modern and have plenty of them. That idea keeps setting him apart from the others. To him it is simple. You seek peace, but stay strong. We need...
...this point, the Northeastern director of athletics, Herb Gallagher, began a monologue of old tales. Highlight of the act was the "scoop" that the Northeastern Huskie is actually female. The sports information director verified the point by revealing that he was arrested this winter and charged with "illegally harboring a bitch...
...same week, no mention of an ominous new ICBM was made. But when the same officials briefed the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 4, Symington, who was present, now claims that the possibility was raised-with warnings that the subject was secret. Yet last week Washington Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, who was not present at the committee meeting, spoke on national television of "huge new missiles" possessed by the Russians. Symington contended that the Administration had told Jackson, a hawkish Democrat and a champion of weapons development (see box), to "put it out." Jackson denied the charge...
Ravenous Machines. The effects of strip mining are not confined to the hidden valleys of Appalachia. The flatter the land over coal deposits, the more easily surface miners can deploy their fantastic King Kong technology. Some new power shovels can scoop up 200 tons in a single bite, then take another gulp a minute later. Even with such ravenous machines working round the clock, all 52 motors screaming, the coal will not run out for centuries. Only 4.5 billion of the nation's 108 billion tons of strippable coal have been touched...