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...crime commission was created last July and includes on its board two senators and three representatives. The commission, with $10,000 for the probe, has sweeping powers to summon witnesses and must report to the legislature by next March...
...hard outdoor life. Because of his broken collarbone he was spared the exhausting sessions in the water during the early days of the trip. More important still: "I early adopted a mood of passivity." Most important of all: "I was determined not to die . . . The body can always summon the last nicker of energy. But it has to be dictated by a refusal to accept death, a determination not to die, a knowledge that one was not meant to end like this...
...affairs of state. Robert Cutler, chairman of the Planning Board of the National Security Council, had flown in from Washington with a fat dispatch case full of international problems, and was waiting at the summer White House when Ike arrived. After a four-hour conference, the President decided to summon John Foster Dulles to Denver for a full report and consultation (see above...
...those disastrous years prior to September 1939, you will recall, one notable voice was never heard from Broadcasting House; a voice which, in 1940 when it was almost too late, was able to summon up endurance and courage . . . How wonderful it would have been if this voice. Sir Winston Churchill's, had been heard on the air warning of the wrath to come . . . The Corporation, however, would not have it [because of Britain's] appeasement policy ... I would myself cheerfully have put up with hours of Mr. J. Fred Muggs for such a deliverance as Sir Winston Churchill...
...come from a hospital bed to trounce a 25-year-old redhead named Donald Budge, the 1938 U.S. amateur champion. Budge called Tilden "the only genius tennis has produced." Even in his late 505, grey and spare, he was still at it, still able, for one set, to summon up flashes of a great game...