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...period went smoothly. The same could be done for the heads of key agencies and White House staff. The formation of recent Administrations after victory has been a frenzied and sometimes sloppy operation. The President-elect and his people are exhausted, often stunned by winning. Opportunists and party contributors swarm into Washington, smelling the power that has settled on the victor. Rushed beyond belief, the President-elect must too often rely on hearsay and vague recommendations about the men he recruits to guide the Republic for four years...
...Flourishes. A swarm of presidential advancemen descended. They made a number of requests of Meany: an offstage microphone for announcing the President's arrival, a union band to strike up Ruffles and Flourishes and Hail to the Chief, a seat of honor to the right of the podium for the President to occupy while Meany made the introduction, removal of delegate seats in front of the speakers' stand to make room for live television cameras, banishment from the press area of reporters covering the convention so that there would be space for White House correspondents...
...Swarm of Locusts...
...only measurable by the distance left to go. Some 200 million people still subsist on 150 a day; more than half of the 10 million government workers earn less than $25 a month. As a Calcutta industrialist put it: "The refugees have descended on our hopes like a swarm of locusts on a good crop...
...interest seems to be swinging back to humanism: 100 more people are majoring in English this year than last; the legions of Social Relations concentrators are diminishing. People suddenly swarm to De Broca's King of Hearts--a movie of social comment, to be sure, but artful and delightfully done. (When King of Hearts first came out in 1967, it was dismissed as fluff...