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Harry Truman was weary, his sunburned nose was peeling and his lips were cracked. But when he got back to Washington last week he was full of bounce; he was delighted with his 15-day, 9,505-mile, 73-speech campaign trip. His whirl through 18 states had been his rehearsal for the big campaign, and he was convinced that the people liked it. He planned to give them a lot more of the same before November...
Congress had its busiest week of the session. Besides voting overwhelmingly in favor of air power, it came to grips with everything from U.N. revision to the long-range housing bill (see Housing). In the Senate, Minnesota's Joe Ball hitched up his trousers for a whirl at refurbishing the Taft-Hartley law. In the House, committeemen met behind closed doors to debate extension of the reciprocal trade agreements...
...variations, the final and most terrifyingly delightful one taking place at a considerably greater distance from the ground, and involving Unus in constant motion as he causes various rings, one placed on each of his legs, another on his free arm, and, it seemed, at least two others, to whirl rapidly...
...other Toscanini is the little old man who loves to go to parties, whirl down Manhattan's Hudson River drive from Villa Pauline, his Riverdale home, to Rockefeller Center in his black Cadillac, and play practical jokes on his family and friends. Once he arranged to have a rubber knife put at his wife's place at a dinner party, was furious when she found the meat tender enough to cut with a fork, and didn...
...novice said. He departed in a whirl of snow. At the botton of the slope he encountered a low-hanging branch and became entangled with it. "Good Lord," the instructor said when caught up, "I told you that you had the wrong club...