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Where were the lieutenants, captains, majors and colonels who were McKeon's superiors? They are the real culprits. General Pate should have been above placing the blame on a four-stripe sergeant...
...small Jordanian plane rolled to a stop on the tarmac of Nicosia airfield on Britain's island of Cyprus, and from it wearily stepped a small, stooped, grey man in a rumpled brown pin-stripe suit. The man in mufti, scarcely able to hold back his tears, was Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb, 58, for more than a quarter of a century one of the most potent and famous figures of British imperial power in the Middle East. Last week, suddenly and savagely, the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan sacked and shipped off the desert proconsul who had made...
...center U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey, however, labeled it "twelve hits and one strike-out." The strikeout: Johnson's proposal on natural gas. Texan Johnson and Democrats from other gas-producing states want natural gas to flow free of federal price controls, while Democrats of Minnesotan Humphrey's stripe want tight control from Washington to hold prices down. Majority Leader Johnson's point on gas might in 1956 lead to a congressional fight demonstrating that not all Democratic hearts are in the same place. As for the rest of the program, the Democratic congressional majorities had as good...
...parts of intelligence and imagination. Like most good poets, Hall knows that. Life is hell, but death is worse. And it is possible that even in an age of anxiety he puts on the hair shirt of guilt more often than is strictly necessary ("I wear-inside-the horizontal stripe"). But Poet Hall is very much alive, and alive to many things. He sings with grace in praise of his native New Hampshire, and he can celebrate his marriage and the birth of his son without seeming mawkish or losing a shred of dignity. A visit to Delphi is fastened...
...will control Kentucky's delegation to the 1956 National Convention. He has not said which candidate he favors, but his utterances have brought no comfort to Adlai Stevenson. He was for Georgia s U.S. Senator Richard Russell in 1952; he is expected to favor a candidate of conservative stripe in 1956. After setting himself up as a favorite-son candidate, Happy is expected to take to Chicago a delegation instructed to vote for him under the unit rule. From that position, he will be able to trade the Kentucky delegation for whatever he can get. Said one veteran Kentucky...