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...three-wheeled buckboard in a spring thaw. First off, Goodie, who wanted badly to run again for governor, was knocked off his seat by Senate Minority Leader Big Bill Knowland, who, with the support of Deadeye Dick Nixon, overran the Knight riders with big guns and big ambitions. Goodie thereupon picked himself up and allowed as how, on second thought, he would just as soon head East for Bill Knowland's seat in the U.S. Senate...
...Houston Merritt, and Walter Reed's Lieut. Colonel Roy E. Clausen Jr. They ordered an electroencephalogram and electrocardiogram, spent 65 minutes studying the results and checking their patient. Verdict at tests' end: the President was completely recovered from the stroke; the defect in his speech had disappeared. Thereupon Walter Reed's most famed patient drove back to the White House, faced a load of work that was piling up between diplomatic summits and economic valleys...
Ahasuerus is the usual name ascribed to the man who denied Christ a moment's rest on his way to Calvary. According to medieval legend (but not Christian doctrine), Ahasuerus thereupon was denied-under Christ's curse-either death or mercy, and was condemned to walk the face of the earth forever. The man cursed with the burden of perpetual life on earth has haunted enough imaginations to produce scores of folk tales, dramas and novels. He now reappears in Pär Lagerkvist's latest book. Those who know the other works (Barabbas, The Eternal Smile...
...French applecart, Mohammed became increasingly dangerous to French influence, was summarily exiled in 1953 to Corsica, then Madagascar (along with his wives, five children). After rebellion flared in Morocco, the French were forced to bring him back in 1955, to the song of triumph from his own people. Thereupon he set out on a program toward constitutional monarchy. Though still autocratic in his ways, he has inspired modernization of his people and the country, remained devoted to the West (if not wholeheartedly to France). In this, he shunned Egypt's Nasser & Co. in their noisy pan-Arabism and holy...
...Arkansas branch, and front-line leader during the crisis at Little Rock's Central High School, was visiting in New York. Asked if she would return to Little Rock-and arrest-Daisy Bates seemed surprised. "That's my home," she said simply. "I live there." Thereupon she flew back, drove to the police station, was duly arrested and released on $300 bond...