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Watching the 43-year-old President's first, fast weeks in office, even John Fitzgerald Kennedy's sharpest critics had to admit that for better or worse he was bringing uncommon vigor to his presidential clerkship. His staff and his Cabinet had long since accepted him as an active boss who would not hesitate to order the toning down of a speech by tough-minded Admiral Arleigh Burke, to personally dress down an aide responsible for a critical news leak...
...Hyden's picture of the possibilities was not all dark. Chemical countermeasures to reverse the brainwashing are "not difficult to imagine," he said. And where mental disease can be shown (as a few uncommon forms have been) to result from a metabolic defect, the defect might be remedied by chemical stimulation of the neurons...
...church outside town to wed prosperous Haberdasher Johan Martin Ferner, 33, and to be read out of royalty. The procession, which was led through 10°-below-zero cold by Astrid's sister, Princess Ragnhild (who had married a commoner in the same church seven years before), included uncommon cousins from three European kingdoms, among them a sympathetic Princess Margaret of Britain. Last came Astrid and her father, King Olav V, who had originally objected to his daughter's cup-winning yachtmate. After the ceremony, performed by a retired bishop in accordance with a church concession, Astrid...
Unknown Theodore. Professor Smith had been browsing through the libraries of the 5th century monastery of Mar Saba in the wilderness a dozen miles southeast of Jerusalem when he came upon a 2½-page text written into the back of a book published in 1646. It was not uncommon, in times when paper was scarce, for monks to copy into contemporary volumes items of interest they might find in the odd pages of ancient, disintegrated books that floated around the library before being thrown out or used as bindings. Smith checked the handwriting with nine of the world...
...campaign. Said Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr.: "This is the first time in my lifetime that the credit of the U.S. has been questioned. A very serious shadow lies over the American business picture." Economic Hypochondria. In 1960 the U.S. citizen faced the new problems with uncommon concern, gamely tried to grapple with such subjects as the rate of economic growth, interest rates and the balance of payments. Even cartoonists turned their drawing boards into economics classrooms. So widespread was the sense of involvement that Charles H. Schmidt, vice president of the National Bank of Detroit...