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...country was dumfounded. Outgoing Premier Ahmed Daouk pleaded wet-eyed for 90 minutes. Interior Minister Edmond Gaspard cried: "Had I the power, I would deny you the right to resign." Two prominent politicians got the news at bathing beaches and, dragging their robes, galloped across the sand to the nearest telephones. Shopkeepers in Che-hab's home town of Jounieh closed down to protest the resignation, and churches of his faith (Maronite Roman Catholic) tolled their bells in sorrow. Politicians kept Chehab's telephone jangling and pounded on the door of his Jounieh home...
...platform has ended--but because it had to--and his troubles are by no means over yet. Every plank is a vacuous patching together of the divergent shreds within the Republican Party, and Nixon has not chosen to reinforce it with something like Al Smith's famous "wet telegram...
...City last week. The Dakotas had it in the 903, and so did normally more temperate New England and the Pacific Northwest-Hartford 90, Boston 92, Spokane 98. The cliche, "It isn't the heat, it's the humidity," was only locally and partially true. Heat, both wet and dry. sent scores of patients to hospitals and some to their graves. The heat was a burning question for laymen and military surgeons. But two doctors write in GP (published by the American Academy of General Practice) that civilian physicians pay too little attention to its dangers, and unwittingly...
...were plagued with seasickness. But Finisterre's shipshape crew kept every possible inch of sail flying, whipped past far bigger boats laboring under storm rigs. "That blow came through like a buzz saw," said Mitchell later. "The boat was knifing out of the water and porpoising. It was wet below, but we had our hot meals on schedule...
...screen or off. Inside a head that makes him look like a benevolent old bullfrog resides a restless imagination, a "flypaper memory" and a wit that ranges from the merry to the mordant. Wilder, not Benchley, was the man who first said: "Wait till I slip out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini." He is also the author of this scathing epigram: "I would worship the ground you walk on if you lived in a better neighborhood...