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...with multi-jewel precision. At the flick of a hand from Hollywood's George Murphy, the convention entertainment director, singers of all shapes and sizes appeared to entertain the delegates. At the drop of a G.O.P. hero's name, sign-toting Young Republicans in varsity sweaters snake-danced down Cow Palace aisles like half time at College Stadium. At the rap of a gavel from Permanent Chairman Joe Martin, the demonstrators vanished like so many genii...
...when he won, he decided to join the carnival for good. In another town a local auto mechanic was called in to help fix a Ferris wheel, and just never left. A college zoologist worked at a carnival one summer, resigned his job at the college, now runs a snake show. A California social worker is now reading palms in a "mitt camp...
...Senate chamber last week rang with a familiar Democratic cry: "Giveaway!" Democratic leaders were struggling to override the Federal Power Commission's decision (TIME, Aug. 15, 1955) to permit the Idaho Power Co. to build three small dams in the Hell's Canyon area of the Snake River. Before the Senate was a Democrat-sponsored bill to 1) order the private development halted (Idaho Power has already begun work at Brownlee, plans to spend $175 million), and 2) build a single, multipurpose, $308 million federal dam in Hell's Canyon. Main reason for the all-out Democratic...
...Canyon to dramatize charges of an Administration natural-resources "giveaway" in the fall campaigns. The committee, following a similar move by its Senate sister, voted 15-13 to clear for House action a bill to build a $600 million federal high dam in Hell's Canyon on the Snake River between Idaho and Oregon. The Idaho Power Co., which the Federal Power Commission licensed last August to build three small dams in the area for an estimated $250 million, has already begun large-scale construction...
Hail always looks that way. He does not like hail, and he tries to keep at least five miles away from tornadoes. "If you play too close," he says, "sooner or later you'll plow up a snake. That...