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...week, will stream up to 20,000 conventiongoers, led by 2,477 delegates and 1,850 alternates, to jam hotels and motels for 50 miles around. A fantastic corps of 4,000 reporters, pundits, photographers, radio and television performers, spielsmen and technicians (almost double the number in 1952) will swarm around Chicago's International Amphitheatre employing 400 veteran telegraphers to transmit 600,000 words an hour, sending photo plates whirlybirding from a rooftop heliport, poking television's Cyclopic eye into every nook and cranny of the amphitheatre (see RADIO...
...this point the member just about abandons all hope of.coming out of the session with complete mental balance," North Dakota Congressman Usher Burdick wrote to his constituents about the frantic last days. "People who want this or that bill swarm the Capitol in person or flood the Congressmen with letters and telegrams, some even threatening members with political extinction unless ..." Amid the tumult and turmoil the Congress nevertheless got plenty of action (or inaction) on "this or that bill...
Agent Provocateur. In Crescent Beach, S.C., after three vacationers called police to report a bee swarm blocking the way into their house, Police Chief Howard Bailey replied: "I can't beat a bee with a blackjack, I can't shoot them and I can't arrest them. Tell you what. If you'll get 'em drunk, I'll come down and see what...
...minutes later Morris Weinberger, drug salesman, got home from a drive with his other son, was told the news by his distraught wife. He promptly called Nassau County police headquarters. Neighbors and a swarm of detectives quickly spread the news through the fashionable Long Island suburb. Inevitably, someone called the New York newspapers...
...lying-Fernandel, who wasn't there and swears that his son wasn't either, v. the unwed mother, who was there and moans that Fernandel's son was, too. Fernandel won't sell bread to his friends turned foes, and the scenes swarm relentlessly, with so many Proven-gal provincials running around like so many Provencal provincials with their bread cut off. The effect might be funnier if time and France's postwar moviemakers had not made stereotypes of them all-the patriarchal mayor, the meddlesome postmaster, the bungling gendarmes, the omnipresent and omniscient priest...