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...life to one grand purpose till he dies...
...good friend Harry Minot, who had accompanied him on many a naturalist expedition, that he had done almost no collecting in the summer of 1879. In 1880, he added: "I write to you to announce my engagement to Miss Alice Lee; but do not speak of it till Monday. I have been in love with her for nearly two years now, and have made everything subordinate to winning her; so you can perhaps understand a change in my ideas as regards science...
Second Day. Through Tuesday morning, tension mounted at the White House. The President slept till 5 a.m., lay quietly in bed till 7:15 a.m., was examined by the doctors again. Key officials began to slip quietly into the White House-the Vice President, now informed, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Attorney General William Rogers. The White House press lobby began to fill, and the pressure piled up against Mrs. Anne Williams Wheaton, associate press secretary, who was standing in for Hagerty. At 8:55 Mrs. Wheaton put out a bulletin that the President was "progressing very well...
...into the open market, as it did in 1953 and 1954, float $1 billion or more in loans through "certificates of interest" on the surplus crops it holds. As a last resort, the Treasury can also draw down its $3.4 billion cash balance, i.e., uncommitted money in the till, to pay bills. Yet even with such devices, says Assistant Secretary Heffelfinger, "the debt may be right at the roof before we see our way clear...
...Keller's boat, grabbing a two-length lead at the Massachusetts Avenue bridge, hung on till the finish to triumph by half a length over Ron Garmey's crew...