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...heroic and poignant performance. He continued to make a pretense of tending to his Senate duties. On the day he announced his retirement from the majority leadership, exhausted and scrawny-looking and badly in need of a haircut, he excused himself to a visitor in his Senate office and dragged himself out on crutches to take Martha Taft to a promised garden party. After an exploratory operation, he hobbled around the room to show a friend from Washington how much he had improved. He did believe, until near the end, that he might have a chance. "I'm going...
...visitor gets in a taxi. "Click." Twenty-five cents to start with, and then 30?, 35?, 40?. A few blocks and it's a dollar. He gets out and pays the driver...
...York, as any visitor can see, is the showplace of change, the city that always sports the latest and shiniest in automobiles, literary movements and ballpoint pens, where perfectly good buildings are torn down every year to make way for newer and better ones. Only its politics have stopped moving. Politically, New York is a kind of petrified forest, where reform candidates roam in solidly institutionalized groups, and the stumps of once-great political growths clutter the landscape...
...England's Harrow during most of it. In the hot sun at Baghdad airport, they kissed in the Arab fashion, rode off together in a scarlet coach drawn by six white horses. Iraqi chieftains from far-flung oases came to Baghdad to pump the hand of the handsome visitor from Jordan. Feisal ordered a five-hour military show for his pistol-toting cousin. At European-style banquets, while diplomats and ministers drank wine, the cousins solemnly sipped Coca-Cola, decorated each other with the highest orders of their lands...
Photographers covering Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito at his summer headquarters on Brioni Island in the Adriatic snapped him sitting in the sun with a tanned and traveled visitor, Adlai Stevenson. After lunch and talk, Stevenson pushed on to Greece to pick up son Borden, thence to Rome to meet son John Fell...