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Last November's elections showed the folly of letting the "liberal" tail wag the Democratic dog, he continued. By trying to mold the Democratic Party to their own image, "extremists who call themselves liberals" had alienated Southern voters and lost the election for two "great Americans"-Stevenson and Sparkman. If the liberals continued their efforts "to drive the South out of the party," he warned, the Democrats would suffer "the most disastrous defeat in American political history" in next year's congressional elections...
...Finished. All of this was a sudden and smart rebuff for the man who had twisted the tail of the British lion, stood steadfast against the pleadings of the mighty U.S., snatched Iran's caviar out of the mouths of the big Russians and made all Persia his flying carpet...
...Lighthouses. Passengers in night-flying airliners have all seen the fingers of light swinging around the dark countryside from airway ground beacons. Soon they will see the same fingers aloft. At least two airlines are equipping planes with General Electric's new rotating tail lights. They will sit on top of the vertical tail fins, and their powerful periodic flashes will warn pilots of distant planes that they are not alone...
Whitfield has done most of his running on special passes from the Air Force, from which he has just been discharged after nearly ten years' service, including 27 missions as a tail gunner in Korea. This season he is wearing the jersey of the Grand Street Boys' Club, an athletic and social club on Manhattan's West Side. Unable to key himself up for competition unless the stakes are of near-Olympic level, he has set himself an improbable and almost impossible goal: ten world records, indoors & out, between 440 and 1,000 yards. At 28, planning...
When the Minister of Justice proposed a bill to punish by two to five years imprisonment, heavy fines, and public whipping, any broadly defined "incitement" to violation of race laws, the United Party squirmed publically. "Do you want equality?" asked the Malanists. The United Party put its tail between its legs...