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...Crusader. It was not. She con tinued her column, wrote 15 books, conducted regular programs on radio and television, supported Adlai Stevenson at the Democratic conventions of 1952, 1956 and 1960. In all of these efforts her gentle manner concealed a fighting spirit. She had a way of infuriating her opponents by making their efforts, and not hers, seem partisan. She became a powerful force for reform in New York City's Democratic Party, led in the successful attempt to kick out Carmine De Sapio as Tammany Hall's boss...
...accepted. Many others were no longer at issue, and the world had come to judge her not by her causes but by her indefatigable heart and her humanity. The United Nations, in a rare unity, hushed its debates for a minute in her honor, and her devoted friend Adlai Stevenson spoke her epitaph: "Her glow had warmed the world." The three Presidents who had succeeded her husband in office were at the graveside as she was buried beside Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the rose garden at Hyde Park...
...Stevenson: "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over...
...Score. Next, Stevenson displayed the photographic evidence of the Cuban bases. As big blowups of the aerial photos were spread on easels, he explained the technical details, adding that this evidence, and more besides, was available for closer inspection by anyone interested. Most of the time, the Russians stared stonily before them, ignoring the pictures. Zorin made one more try by citing some questionable photographs Stevenson had shown the Council just before the Bay of Pigs invasion. Cried Zorin: "One who has lied once will not be believed a second time. Accordingly, Mr. Stevenson, we shall not look at your...
...Again Stevenson had the last word. The authenticity of the pictures could be established, he said, if "the Soviet Union would ask their Cuban colleagues to permit a U.N. team to go to these sites. If so, Mr. Zorin. I can assure you that we can direct them to the proper places very quickly. We know the facts. Mr. Zorin, and so do you, and we are ready to talk about them. Our job here is not to score debating points: our job, Mr. Zorin, is to save the peace. If you are ready...