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...Staff wanted 163 wings (as the Air Force now describes them) by 1954, and Vandenberg pleaded for it in JCS meetings. The other members of the JCS balked. For one entire week last fall Vandenberg sat at his desk and glared moodily at the figures. Then one day he strode through the Pentagon's web to the closely guarded sector where the Joint Chiefs of Staff hold their regular meetings. In his quiet, earnest baritone he went over his case again & again for Chief of Staff Joe Collins of the Army, Chief of Naval Operations Bill Fechteler...
Harry Truman had been acting just as benevolent, kind, homespun, cheerful, charming and chipper as could be. But he had been deluged all week by a rain of dead cats as big as tigers. As he strode into his press conference, he was fairly busting to tell the world that his heart was pure and that he was true to the red, white & blue. There had, he said right off, been a lot of hooey about seizure of the press & radio. The thought of seizing them had never occurred to him, and he couldn't imagine it happening. Then...
...Dever, followed Cambridge's troubadour to the microphones and began reading. Just as he was recounting the feats of Paul Revere and the compliments of Paul Dever, a crowd of legionnaires and citizens, all ablaze in oversized Taft buttons, surged down Garden Street from the Northwest. Soon Senator Taft strode into sight, his face set in a tight smile...
...Wrong." Ike seemed unusually harassed and baggy-eyed when he strode into a special press conference at SHAPE to face a full house of correspondents. After wan smiles to right & left, he whipped out his heavy hornrimmed glasses and settled down to the serious reading of a 1,300-word prepared text, forewarning reporters that there would be no questions allowed...
Massive (6 ft., 240 Ibs.) Henry B. Krajewski of Secaucus, N.J. has a five-acre farm with 4,000 pigs, a flourishing saloon ("Tammany Hall Tavern") and political ambitions. Last week Krajewski, a black & white pig under one arm, a petition with 1,136 signatures under the other, strode into, the New Jersey Statehouse and filed as the "poor man's candidate" for President...