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...song. Red-eyed delegates sing, shout, weep, laugh, wring hands, whale backs and jostle one another in the aisles. Spotlights swing dizzily around the vast room; the convention floor is a riotous sea of waving signs. BANG! BANG! BANG! Permanent Chairman Sam Rayburn thumps endlessly for order: "The sergeant at arms will clear the aisles." Finally, a hush falls. Rayburn smiles for the first time in precisely four years. "Members of the convention!" cries he. "It is my great pleasure to give you the NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
Arms are so much a part of the scenery, violence so much an accepted condition, that the news is chronicled in Nicosia's newspapers like the day's temperature readings: the British sergeant's 17-year-old son shot in the back of the head by Greek Cypriot EOKA terrorists; the trusting, 62-year-old British importer killed by gunfire as he stepped into his car; the three terrorists blown up by their own crude bomb; the pencil bomb that went off last week in a British airman's kit bag just before...
Casehardened. In Gateshead, England, after his arrest for drunken driving, James Scott admitted under oath that he had downed 13 pints of beer on the night he was arrested, argued that "it would take 15 pints to put me under the influence," was acquitted when a police sergeant testified that Scott was "well used to taking drink...
Violations of major parking and registration rules have occurred with less frequency than ever before. Police Sergeant Carl Ikels said, "We have given very few tickets this year, although we always catch all violators. We haven't had to go as far as we intended...
...friendly confines of a Y.M.C.A. meeting, TV Actor Ben Alexander, Dragnet's heavy-footed Sergeant Frank Smith, in real life a solid businessman and parent (three children), rapped out his private A.P.B. on a teen idol, the late Cinemactor James Dean: "This ruthless, selfish, egotistical young fool was nobody's idol until our children were told that he was. He was an All-American rebel against all manners, morals, family decency and Christian society...