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...children, his wife, and all the other irrelevent trivia possible to blur his listeners' intellects with team? What do they think of the epilogue, when Nixon's campaign manager admitted that his boss misused (by Nixon's detinition) the Senatorial franking privilege for political purposes? That Eisenhower should select such a vice-president, that he should allow the possibility of Nixon's assuming the chief executive's office, and that he should permit a flood of prepared telegrams to decide for him the fate of this opportunist, is a shabby commentary on the General's much vaunted leadership...
...virtue any exclusive or supreme respect. You know perhaps that I am not a dogmatist in ethics, aesthetics, or politics. What you admire is stoical and certainly imposing, when genuine; but a thousand Combinations of other virtu arise in the world which appeal to me more. At least you select personages as occasional examples of the "highest" character who do not figure in my personal pantheon. But you know what our friend Spinoza says to the effect that Peter's idea of Paul expresses the nature of Peter better than that of Paul; and I see especially in your last...
...install than regular operator-run cars, the new system is controlled by an electrical brain which can regulate the elevators in busy morning hours to make a maximum of up trips and, at quitting time, to concentrate on down rides. Riders press a button to start the elevator and select their own floors. Other features: a weighing device which tells the brain when the elevator is full, sends it up ahead of schedule; doors which close with a slow but persistent nudge if anyone is standing...
...four weeks, Dwight Eisenhower had listened while advisers, some invited and more not, had their say about how to select and tailor the issues. Many of those who came to advise had widely different opinions, tugging the candidate one way and another (e.g., Northern Republicans wanted him to come out for a federal fair-employment-practices law, Southerners wanted nothing of the kind). His sources of information and advice ranged from Statesman John Foster Dulles to two Hillsdale, Mich, boys who sent him a Walt Disney comic book and asked for his "autograth...
...relax and "start putting words on paper. Start with the first word that pops into your mind relating to the product. This word will suggest another word. Simply jot them down as they come to you-and keep writing!" Lesson Seven ("Super-Speedway to Stardom") says: 'You must select the words that are to be spun into phrases and the phrases to be spun into entries. You must separate the gold from the copper coins." By Lesson Twelve, students are being coached in such dark mysteries as the use of the "Mystic Three." Says Shepherd: "Even Julius Caesar used...