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Disappointing Start. This reversal, plus the fact that Eisenhower Republicanism is already firmly established in the middle of the campaign road, has thrust upon Adlai Stevenson the unaccustomed role of aggressor. In his search for issues to attract the independent vote-which holds the important balance of power that it held in 1952-Stevenson in his pre-campaign campaigning has ranged far, wide, and sometimes erratically. In speeches that have become increasingly strident, he has come out on the one hand for sounder money and on the other hand for lower taxes and bigger federal expenditures. He has been...
...wind and the prop wash of several other planes. Nancy's hat was imperiled, her skirt began to balloon. Says she: "Just as I grabbed for the hat with one hand and for the skirt with the other, an eager, friendly crowd swarmed up to greet us. Someone thrust at me the usual welcoming bouquet, which I, not being endowed with three hands, frantically considered gripping with my teeth. Estes, pumping away with both fists, looked over at me, a little annoyed. Above the hubbub of wind, propellers and introductions, he called out, 'Honey...
...weeks ago. many of the other pilots (mostly French or English) were home on vacation. On the company's promise to continue them on full pay as long as the crisis lasted, many of them refused to report back for duty. Exhausted and disgusted at the extra work thrust upon them under Egyptian management, those that were still on duty seemed ready to quit at the drop of the company's hat. To keep the roster full Nasser has offered the pilots fantastic salaries, had his emissaries in a score of countries place ads in newspapers, proselyte...
...propagandists had to go on was a 15-minute "courtesy call" that the Russian charge d'affaires in Rome. Dmitry Pogidaev, had begged of the papal nuncio to Italy. Monsignor Giuseppe Fietta. During the meeting Pogidaev thrust upon Fietta two familiar "peace" propaganda documents, and Fietta read his caller a stiff lecture on the sad state of religious freedom in Russia. Then Pope Pius XII himself slapped down the reconciliation rumors. Before any agreement with "the enemy" could be considered, he reiterated, the church must have full freedom-not merely freedom of worship but freedom "to care...
...before he got his comeuppance. During that time he "laid down a coherent program of legal enactments, maintained an orderly society, and actively promoted the well-being of his subjects." Besides, murder was "the accustomed fate of deposed monarchs . . . Edward II was murdered, perhaps by a red hot spit thrust up his bowel. Richard II was starved, poisoned or hacked by steel . . . The feeble-witted Henry VI ... put to silence." So, guilty or not guilty, Richard demands-through Historian Kendall-a measure of sympathy. His predecessors were brutes. His successors were brutes. Richard, too, was just an average brute...