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...edge of the post-Minnesota vacuum, one Democrat loomed larger than ever before. He is New York's Governor Averell Harriman, the New Dealing multimillionaire with wide experience in the Federal Government and an important victory at the polls (in 1954, over Senator Irving Ives). As a fast-moving, "inactive" candidate, Harriman has been the subject of complimentary remarks by former President Harry Truman and the beneficiary of considerable spadework by Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio...
...compromise candidate, perhaps Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, or Ohio's Governor Frank Lausche. These and other names, e.g., Pennsylvania's Governor George Leader and New Jersey's Governor Robert Meyner, were being rolled around in the vacuum...
While they lunched, dark, handsome Neophytos Sophocleous, newest of the Cypriot servants, was at work vacuum-cleaning the Harding bedroom. Later, Sir John's Armenian housekeeper found Sophocleous standing between Sir John's and Lady Harding's twin beds, rewinding the electric cord on the machine. Why wasn't he vacuuming? Said Sophocleous: "I have done all that is necessary." That night, while his army patrolled the city in Land Rovers with Sten guns at the ready, Sir John slept a round eight hours...
...Into the Vacuum. Eastland denies that he has ever been a member of a Citizens' Council (or of the Klan). There is no doubt that he has become a kind of patron saint of the councils. Stepping into a vacuum at the heart of the councils, he gave them a philosophy and a voice, and today Southern cities which had barely heard of him two years ago fight for dates on his crowded speaking schedule. Those who manage to get him hear what has become almost a canned speech. In it, Eastland starts from the assumption that the anti...
...fighter the transistors for radar and navigation aids cost ten times as much as vacuum tubes doing the same job, but the mighty mites do not require cooling, as do the tubes. This saves some $50,000, the cost of addkional power plant and airplane structure to carry the cooling apparatus, as well as cutting the weight of the plane...