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They were there on a summons from Presidential Adviser John Steelman, who had warned them: "This isn't a social visit. This is it." Precisely at 10 o'clock, Murray and Fairless were ushered into the President's oval study. Harry Truman greeted them curtly, then coldly...
Fighting Road. Tense at first, he soon relaxed and in his first visit to any political convention hall, delivered the best speech of his brief political career. Said he: "I know something of the solemn responsibility of leading a crusade. I have led one . . . Mindful of its burdens and of...
On the Surface. In Chicago, Junkman Peter Dukes used his own trucks to haul in a dozen loads of his own stone and cinders to fill in holes in the street outside his yard, soon received a court summons on charges of dumping in the street.
There was ample evidence of disappointed hopes and government indecisiveness. The summons to greatness, which men thought Churchill's election promised, has not been heard. Britain's foreign policy is still a tired response, not a challenge. Despite the stimulus of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler'...
On the other hand, says Menzel, seeing flying saucers is not the same thing as believing that they are space ships manned by intelligent beings from another planet. This science-fiction approach is like "explaining" lightning by calling it a weapon of Zeus: it merely supplants one mystery by another...