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...word that it was sound; 2) every time an Ikeman staked his political future by defending the budget he was likely to have the ground cut out from under him by members of the President's official family; e.g., just before Ike's TV speech, Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams proclaimed that the budget could stand a $2 billion...
...Mundt, Minnesota's Edward Thye and New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, plus a dozen Ikemen: Vermont's George Aiken, Colorado's Gordon Allott, Connecticut's Prescott Bush, Kansas' Frank Carlson, New Jersey's Clifford Case and Alexander Smith, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper, New York's Irving Ives and Jacob Javits, Utah's Arthur Watkins and Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley...
...Confederacy. In this absorbing book, Texas-born Historian Vandiver (Rice Institute) does not hazard a guess, but notes that Stonewall's magic was greatly aided by the mediocrity of his opponents. Tactics that bewildered Banks and Pope and Hooker might well have foundered against commanders like Grant and Sherman. As it was, Jackson's greatest coups were repeatedly frustrated by the dogged resistance of the often outwitted but seldom outfought Union soldier. At the Second Battle of Bull Run, Jackson struck with sledgehammer force against an unsuspecting Federal column miles behind the front. Instead of disintegrating...
Then Edgar began pointing at brother Milton, 57, who is president of Johns Hopkins University, at Eisenhower Adviser Paul Hoffman and at White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams. Said Edgar: "Hoffman's made a flop of everything he ever put his hand to. Adams and I certainly don't see alike. In fact, we rub each other the wrong way, but I think he has tremendous influence with Dwight. I know Dwight listens to him all the time. He's indicated that about Milton too. They're all too liberal...
...Power Within You, by Claude Bristol and Harold Sherman (Prentice-Hall; 85,000 copies), is about as noisy as the mental dynamite it promises to detonate-that something which will "release you from chronic nervous tensions, chase the butterflies out of your stomach . . . and enable you to face things you've been running away from, for years!" The authors rattle on like pneumatic drills and 200 pages later bore through to the autosuggestive heart of the matter: "Your main, over-all theme in life, of course, is: 'I am going to succeed in everything I undertake...