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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in the week, Lyndon Johnson seemed in top shape. "The end is in sight," he told newsmen shortly after he came from a lunch with members of his policy committee. He had also gone the rounds on Capitol Hill, checking with other key Senators and with the House leaders. All were agreed: the Congress could finish its work in plenty of time for a July 30 adjournment...
...candidacy. But he quietly passed the word that he really favored Connecticut's Arthur Connell. Reason: Fenlon was so popular in his own state that he was becoming a threat to Ringley's control of the Illinois Legion. Connell won easily, Fenlon dropped out of sight, and Ringley remained the master of the Legion situation...
...favorable relationship" with U.S. intelligence agencies). Büro Gehlen's headquarters, a clump of houses surrounded by barbed wire, is south of Munich and not far from Dachau. Outside the main offices the Stars & Stripes fly alongside the flag of West Germany. Gehlen himself stays out of sight. He is married and has four children; he loves fast cars and still has a student's fascination for tricky paraphernalia, obsolete codes and invisible inks. The only available photograph of Gehlen was taken when he was a colonel, twelve years...
...moon at the time when the supernova could first have been seen in Arizona. The answer came out right. The moon was a crescent, as drawn. In northern Arizona it would have risen shortly before dawn on July 5th, and the supernova would have been close to it. The sight must have been striking; the supernova was probably the brightest object, other than the sun, ever to be seen by historic...
...Their engraving made one point historians long lost sight of: the Lexington Minutemen were dispersing without offering concerted resistance when shot down...