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...Pittsburgh, where the Amen Corner-an organization of business and professional men-gave him a cordial reception, three local John Birch Society members announced formation of a Wallace-for-President group. Wallace said he welcomed their support because the Birchers he knew in Alabama were fine folks and stout antiCommunists...
...usual sort of leggy glamour girl who is ordinarily greeted by photographers when landing at Kennedy Airport. Her hair was bobbed a trifle close, her figure was a trifle stout, and her face was round and beaming but she nonetheless had a special kind of glamour. As more than 100 news men and airport police surrounded her, a forest of microphones poking from their midst, Svetlana Stalina, 42, daughter of Joseph Stalin and by far the most prominent defector ever to pass through the Iron Curtain, gave her first greeting to the U.S. "Hello there, everybody," she said...
...Besides his significant contributions in the South, Howe encouraged people around here who worked in civil rights," Monro added. "He was a stout support to those people...
Punji sticks bloomed like lethal lotus on every side, and bunkers by the dozen thrust from the sand dunes as the Marine company moved through the brush 14 miles northwest of Hué. The territory was familiar ground to the one civilian with the Marines: stout, cheerful Bernard Fall, who, by his books and visits to the country, had made himself the best-known international commentator on Viet...
...first version was created in the Stout Metal Airplane Co. (which Ford partly owned) by mongrelizing a single-engined plane, the "Stout Air Pullman." Only one of these bulbous-nosed trimotors was made flyable, and it was flown only once. Immediately after its hair-raising test flight, the pilot, Shorty Schroder, went to Ford and for several hours heatedly described its ungainliness and capricious lift characteristics. The next day Ford bought Stout's company...