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Ample Opportunity. Slightly self-conscious at the start, the normally unbending McNamara soon warmed to the part of stump politician; time and again he and Khanh waved clasped hands to the crowds. Said one brasshat: "Bob loved it. In the end, you couldn't keep him away from a camera or a microphone...
Wall-to-Wall Wealth. Johnson was at his political best with a stump-stirring speech at a $100-a-plate roast beef dinner for 3,500 in the Fontainebleau Hotel. He paid tribute to Kennedy, vowed "to continue the work he began." He said he intends to prove "that Government can be progressive without being radical, prudent without being reactionary." In an atmosphere of wall-to-wall wealth, he announced that he would send his message on poverty to Congress this week. Then he turned to civil rights...
...Europe received Wilson with tumultuous enthusiasm as the idealist peacemaker who promised to end war through a new League of Nations. But the Peace Conference soon bogged down, opposition to the League of Nations built up, and Wilson grew depressed. Exhausted but stubborn, he decided to stump the country for the League. In September 1919, he started out on a grueling 27-day tour by rail of most of the states, but at Pueblo, Colo., he suffered a stroke...
...Goldwater and Rockefeller, but probably on the liberal side." He turned down an offer to run for the U.S. Senate last year "because the company wasn't quite mature enough to leave alone then." Idahoans suspect that his high ambitions will in time tempt him out onto the stump...
...Russian model that Yesalis saw, a hard leather cylinder attaches the artificial hand and forearm to the patient's upper arm. The plastic strap secured to the stump below the elbow contains two electrodes, each attached to two wires that proceed up the sleeve of coat or dress in a single cable. They lead to a transistorized power pack the size of a cigarette case, which may be worn under a man's shirt or a woman's blouse. Another wire leads back from the power pack, down the arm, to the artificial hand. Inside this hand...