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...older man's efficiency and administrative know-how ; Ruiz Cortines admired Alemán's energy and imagination. As Alemán rose from governor of Veracruz to Interior Minister, he took Ruiz Cortines along as administrative assistant. Then, when the governorship of Veracruz became vacant in 1943, Alemán helped get the job for his faithful friend...
Close Ranks. Since he is staying on in Washington as Radford's NATO assistant, Collins (who is not called "Lightning Joe" for nothing) reacted fast. He learned that the spacious quarters at Fort Myer, which Air Force General Hoyt Vandenberg had occupied,* were still vacant, and that Van's successor as Air Chief, General Nate Twining, had no plans to move into them. Collins called Ridgway and suggested, with the fervor of a real-estate agent, that the Vandenberg house, with its panoramic view of the city, might be just the thing for him. But Ridgway...
...water for more than a year, is importing it in railroad tank cars at a cost of 60? for 100 gallons. Both wheat and cotton crops in the area have been failing for three years, the town is surrounded by abandoned farms, and many houses and business buildings stand vacant...
...Madison Square Garden last week, the ex-street fighter and the ex-stevedore, both now 24 and duly coached and polished in Marquis of Queensberry niceties, met for the American middleweight championship, a title which has been vacant since Sugar Ray Robinson retired. Also at stake: a world title bout with European Champion Randy Turpin in August. Punching Paddy Young's campaign plan was simple: bore in swinging for a knockout. Bobo Olson, a far fancier fighter, figured to win on points...
...United States is not a mere matter of population and geography. It is the incarnation of political convictions. It is the one political structure in the world's history that was built consciously and deliberately from precise, mathematically calculated specifications on a vacant lot cleared for that purpose in 1776. The mathematical certainties are described in the specifications as 'self-evident truths.' They describe the certainty of an Almighty God, the certainty of human equality before God and therefore before the law of the land, the certainty of the divine origin of human rights and duties...