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...Hill half an hour after it arrived, the President called House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck of Indiana to insist upon another last-ditch stand such as Halleck staged to sustain the previous veto by one vote (TIME, Sept. 14). That upset victory had won Halleck a bottle of presidential Scotch; another, joked the President, would win a second bottle. Halleck swore to do his all, dutifully got off wires and cables to absentees, cracked the G.O.P. whip. But since their support of the first veto, a critical number of his hard-pressed Republicans and antipork Democrats had become convinced that...
Back to the Wall (Essex-Universal; Ellis) is a French murder mystery. The victim (Philippe Nicaud) is a young Parisian actor who drinks Scotch and smokes English cigarettes, but his outstanding habit is routinely French. The poor fellow cannot stop making love to another man's wife (Jeanne Moreau), his sweetheart from drama-school days. As the film begins, the husband (Gerard Oury), a dull young electronics millionaire, is expanding his plant, reinforcing a new concrete wall with the corpse of his wife's lover...
...team working with him. To help him formulate policy, there was Treasury Secretary Anderson, a strong man who, unlike Humphrey, would not consider undercutting the President's program. To help the President sell his program to Congress, there was Major General Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, a genial, Scotch-sipping and thoroughly efficient Alabaman who succeeded flinty Sherman Adams as chief of the White House staff. Where Sherman Adams had long been a congressional cuss word, Jerry Persons was a longtime congressional favorite. Where Adams had let the merest handful of visitors get past him to see the President, Persons...
...were those of the same old Ike. He arose at 7 or 7:15 each morning, showered, shaved, had a small steak for breakfast, and was at his desk by 8 or 8:15. After lunch, he took an hour-long nap, then worked until 5:30, downed a Scotch highball before dinner, often returned to his work at night. Usually in bed by 10:30, he often relaxed-as he had during the days of World War II decisions-with western novels, preferably those of Red Reeder, Luke Short and Max Brand, to "shut off the mind and stop...
Reflecting Runway. A reflecting paint for airport runways and taxi strips that makes them brightly visible at night is being sold by Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. The mixture, called Scotch-Rok, reflects a plane's landing lights two miles away...