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...That is perhaps the understatement of the day. McClellan endured two of his testiest briefings ever, with NBC's David Gregory saying at an off-camera morning briefing that the Administration neglected its duty to put out the information and that White House reporters "don't care if some ranch owner calls a local paper." McClellan accused Gregory of grandstanding: "Hold on. Cameras aren't on right now. You can do this later." That infuriated Gregory. "You don't have to yell," McClellan said. Gregory shot back: "I will yell. If you want to use that podium...
...testiest moments the debate, Romney criticized Kennedy for attacking him on not providing health-care coverage for part-time workers. In turn, Romney said Kennedy did just the same at the Chicago Merchandise Mart, a Kennedy family enterprise...
Measured in terms of laughter and anger, the conference was as lively as anything since the testiest press go-rounds of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. There was a roar of good, natural laughter when the President expressed the modest certainty that the State Department would not ignore the suggestions of his brother Milton, after his five-week goodwill trip through Latin America. There was reportorial anger over the news leak on the Warren appointment (see PRESS). And the President in turn was angered when a reporter asked for his version of ex-Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin...
Last week two of the testiest physiologists in the U.S. talked back to the Army's Captain Harry Armstrong, long considered No. 1 U.S. authority on aviation medicine. At the University of Chicago's 50th anniversary celebration, famed Professors Anton Julius ("Ajax") Carlson and Andrew Conway Ivy marched in with a parachute jumper. In a learned paper on "The Physiology of a Free Flight Through the Air" they contradicted some of the scientific observations which Dr. Armstrong made when he jumped from a plane at 2,200 feet, six years...
...exciting week of total failure to make London pedestrians stop jaywalking last week put Sir John Gilmour, Bart., grizzled and humorless Home Secretary, into the testiest of tempers. No other Cabinet officer has more direct control over British subjects. Scotland Yard is directly under the Home Secretary; administration of workmen's compensation laws fits into his portfolio; he advises the King when to exercise the right of pardon; he bars undesirable aliens and outranks all His Majesty's other Secretaries of State...
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