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...house was surrounded by trees, dense shrubbery and a high wall. The driveway was normally blocked by a heavy gate. But on Halloween, the gate was swung wide open, offering trick-or-treaters (and their curious parents) an invitation to enter...
Most likely, not a single White House official knows whether that happened. But just because it may be true, the Clintons' campaign-tested damage-control team swung into action in February. Even White House counsel Lloyd Cutler got into the act, withholding the Eggleston memo from lawmakers until last Monday night, releasing it only under pressure from Congress...
Taylor and his workers swung into action with steel tubing, wood, fabric, paint and wooden wings. By the spring of 1943 they had turned out 750 Waco CG- 4A gliders that would be towed behind C-47 transport planes, the silent landing craft for men and weapons in the farm fields behind the Normandy beaches. One G.I. had just stumbled ashore on D-day when he saw what he thought was a great cloud rising across the Channel and coming toward him. It was the first wave of U.S. gliders bringing in more troops and guns. As the news...
Public opinion has not swung very far toward the unions either. A TIME/CNN poll last week, conducted by Yankelovich Partners Inc., turned up wildly ambivalent feelings: 42% of those questioned said it would be good for the U.S. economy if more workers joined labor unions, vs. 36% who thought that would be bad -- yet 37% thought unions have too much power, in contrast to 23% who believed they have too little. That hardly constitutes the climate necessary for a dramatic increase in union clout. But after the savage buffeting the union movement has suffered over the past 30 years...
...what seemed to be a key victory in the Clinton administration's campaign for universal health coverage, Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-III), swung his support yesterday behind a speech at the Harvard School of Public Health...