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...freshman Republican legislators who outran the Republican national ticket in 1960, Morse said the Democrats had successfully portrayed Republicans as people with "cash registers in their brains, and a ticker tape in their hearts...
...Over a ticker in the White House basement last week clacked the somber words that may help to decide the fate of embattled South Viet Nam-and perhaps all of Southeast Asia. They were in a preliminary report from President Kennedy's chief military adviser, General Maxwell D. Taylor, fresh from a seven-day fact-finding tour of South Viet Nam. Though the U.S. had sent five earlier fact-finding missions to Viet Nam, Taylor's mission was to be the final, decisive survey of the situation before the U.S. decides what course to take to save...
...Simple Thing. In jaded New York, where the arrival of autumn serves mainly to announce one more World Series (25 pennants are draped on the walls of Yankee Stadium), news of the Yankees' victory was accepted serenely. Mayor Robert F. Wagner planned a ticker-tape parade, but the idea was promptly vetoed by the businesslike Yankee front office. "Too many things have to be done," explained a Yankee spokesman. Hard-shelled Ralph ("The Major") Houk, 42, who won a pennant in his first year as a big league manager, had a disarmingly simple explanation for his success. "Really, this...
...rapidly tilts and rotates the element on its axis as it moves across the paper, bringing the proper character into position for printing. The element is then rocked against ribbon and paper to print the character. This is essentially the same principle used by the Dow-Jones business-news ticker and the old Hammond typewriter...
...friend, Dwight Eisenhower. On another evening, he traded war stories with Secretary of State Dean Rusk-an old Burma hand-and was chided by protocol officers for forgetting to toast the health of the U.S. President. Having survived all the festivities, Ayub flew off for a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan and a visit to Ike's Gettysburg, Pa. farm. Still ahead of him were more gastronomical trials: a U.N. dinner and a barbecue at the Texas ranch of Vice President Johnson...