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...been some time since Johnson has been able to whip out a poll, thrust it under the nose of some startled diplomat or newsman and brandish it as evidence of his popularity. Down at the ranch, he was able to savor two samplings, one taken by Gallup before the President's Glassboro summit meetings, another by Louis Harris afterward, which showed a sharp increase in his ratings. Gallup gave him a 1% edge over Michigan's Republican Governor George Romney-though he trailed Romney by 9% less than four months ago. Harris showed him leading both Romney...
Poison Drops. He is lucky to have reached the age of 31. In his 15 years as King, he has lost count of the bullets fired at him, the knives thrust at him and the would-be assassins who were caught before they could act. On one occasion, an assistant palace cook plotted to poison him, but gave himself away by testing the poison on 16 palace cats, all of which died. In 1958, at the controls of his de Havilland Dove on a flight to Europe, he was attacked by Syrian MIGS, escaped only by power-diving toward...
...main thrust of the Confession centers down in its discussion of Reconciliation in Society. The Church declares that race, peace, poverty, and man and woman are particularly urgent problems at the present time...
...often, there is a tendency to view the low-income neighborhood as expendable... One chief thrust of the Cambridge proposal is to confront that issue directly, and to test many techniques for preserving a low-income area for its residents and for injecting new and valuable resources into its way of life...
...unstoppable Israeli thrust through the Sinai Desert quickly became known as the blintzkrieg. It was led by the crack regiment known as the Bagel Lancers. When Israeli troops reached the Suez Canal, they grabbed the lox. At one point in the campaign, an Arab division spotted a lone Israeli sniper on a sand dune. The commander dispatched three men to get him. When they did not return, he sent a dozen. None of them came back. So he finally sent an entire company. Two hours later, one blood-splattered Egyptian soldier crawled back. "It was an ambush," he explained. "There...