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...words, but he understood the tone. He planted his sneaker-clad feet wide apart and looked coldly into the officer's eyes. "I am the son of a Russian officer," he said in Polish. "Do not stop me. You cannot stop me." The Volkspolizist stepped back. Mieczyslaw strode on, into West Berlin...
Dean Acheson, mustache bristling with indignation, strode into the State Department pressroom one day last week. Correspondents, scrambling to their feet at the unusual visitation, did not have to ask the reason. The Secretary of State had news: Moscow had just asked the U.S. to recall Ambassador to Russia George F. Kennan...
...Wisconsin. Said he: "I am not displeased with the treatment. I thought General Eisenhower handled the situation pretty well." The Senator clearly was displeased with the fact that he had been assigned a seat in the sixth car in Ike's Milwaukee motorcade. Ignoring the assignment, McCarthy strode purposefully up to the car directly behind Eisenhower's and shouldered his way into...
...Next Corner. Ike and Mamie watched Nixon on television in the auditorium-manager's office upstairs. By the time Nixon's telecast ended, Mamie was dabbing at her eyes and Ike was jumping with fight. He strode into an adjoining room with four members of his staff, threw aside his prepared speech on inflation and began scribbling notes for a new speech. At 10:30 p.m., to Bender's enormous relief, Ike came into the auditorium. ("Here we go, boys," he said over his shoulder. "You never know what's around the next corner.") The crowd...
Situation Normal. One day last week, Sewell Avery called a three-man quorum of his executive committee without telling President Ball about his plans. In the office next day, Stu Ball got the shock of a lifetime. In strode Controller Edmund A. Krider, 40, with the word that Ball was out as president and that Krider was in. Sewell Avery let it be known that so far as he was concerned. Lawyer Ball had never got "comfortable" in his retailing job. But Ward employees gossiped that Stu Ball had simply become a mite too independent for the boss...