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...intellectuals; they want to gallop all the time, and I have to put a curb-bit in that horse's mouth. The second is much older, and inclined to be mulish; that is my block of Southern states . . . And then my third horse, a nervous and skittish steed which I seldom dare mention by name. You will consider my naming it confidential, please? . . . My Roman Catholic charger. There are twenty million Catholics in this country, and the great bulk of them think and vote as their Church advises...
Across 6,000 miles, Joe flashed the message. The anxious group on the atoll carefully followed the doctor's orders. A nurse on the island, Mrs. Robert Steed, though eight months pregnant, turned out to give the plasma transfusion. By that time, Radio-Ham Barnes was talking to surgeons attached to Hawaii's Hickam Field, getting more instructions. When a rescue plane and an Army surgeon arrived five hours later from Hickam, they found that Radioman Buster Bailey was still holding on. By nightfall he was resting comfortably in a Hawaiian hospital...
...color-loving, fun-seeking Sudanese there were color and fun aplenty. It was Leilat el Isra, anniversary of Mohamed's visit to the seven heavens on his human-faced steed el Buraq. It was also the birthday anniversary of Mohamed Ahmed el Mahdi, whose fanatic desert dervishes destroyed "Chinese" Gordon's British army in the Sudan...
...Liberal); and youthful Harris Wofford Jr., founder of Student Federalists (the junior branch of Federal Union). Sparkplug of the eight full-time staffers, all under 30, is energetic Managing Editor Helen B. Hamer, alumna of Manhattan's Greenwich Villager and Science Illustrated. The "panel of contributors" includes Wickham Steed, Elmo Roper, Pertinax, Magyar Cartoonists Derso & Kelen...
...sorry steed but in a Packard limousine (he no longer uses a German Mercedes-Benz), the most unquixotic of Spaniards drove through his capital. His Sancho Panzas were red-bereted bodyguards armed with Tommy guns. A clamorous crowd was assembled to cheer his progress through the Puerta del Sol. They gave the Falangist salute. They chanted: "Franco! Franco! Franco!" They screamed: "Franco, yes! Russia...