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Although Meyer ran a scrupulously ethical Administration, it was not long before there was rumbling about the President's "kitchen cabinet." (One wag said a Jewish President should have "two kitchen cabinets," one for milk and one for meat.) The President's 15-year-old son, Hiram, and his 25-year-old daughter, Deborah, both had to be lifted bodily from their beds every Saturday morning to be marched to the synagogue with the family for the waiting photographers...
...sufferer, sidewalks sag, buildings wag. These are some of the symptoms that signal the onslaught of Meniere's disease, a recurring disorder of the inner ear that can in acute cases destroy the sense of balance and cause violent nausea, severe vertigo and progressive deafness. First recorded in detail by a 19th century French ear doctor, Prosper Meniere, the disease has been attributed to a variety of causes-cysts, tumors, allergy, arterial spasms, bacterial or viral infections, even psychological factors-and tends to disappear with the passage of time...
...Kennedy's television debates made him nationally known, and they helped overcome the feeling that he was too young and too inexperienced. The Republicans' who-can-deal-with-Khrushchev issue somehow got lost in Khrushchev's monkeyshining at the U.N. (It got so that anyone could wag a finger at Khrushchev.) Kennedy had his party's traditional appeal to labor, Jews and Negroes, plus his own appeal to millions of fellow Catholics. More over, there were enough gloomy headlines about business troubles and unemployment to let him make much, in the last weeks, of the Democrats...
...said that "every admissions officer in the United States would give five years of his life" if he could use an IBM machine to cull freshmen. But no one has yet found the right punch-card formula, Chamberlain mused, a trifle sadly, in the Saturday Evening Post. "One wag predicts it is more likely we shall find a way to punch holes in the candidates and run them through the machines...
Ignoring his repeated defeats at the U.N., Khrushchev claimed "considerable results" from his trip and called the Soviet anti-colonialism resolution "a great success." He blamed the West, and in particular British Prime Minister Macmillan, for the rejection of his disarmament proposals and warned with a wag of his finger: "If they would like once again to test our strength, we will show them...