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Eamon McDonough would be doing more for the future of the country if he were to go to both the church pew and the election booth on election...
...Wife & Washington. When Dick's older brother Harold had TB, Mrs. Nixon took him to Prescott, Ariz., and in the summers, Dick joined them, working as a barker for the wheel of fortune at the Frontier Days Rodeo. He learned the knack of drumming up customers, and his booth became the most popular in the show...
...country is faced with a choice between Uriah Keep ("I am aware that I am the 'umblest person going") and the Constant Tin Soldier ("He did not think it right to shout in uniform"). For myself, on election day I shall go not to the election booth but to the church pew and pray for the future of the country...
...times every second - almost 400 million times a year - some worried citizen peers down the length of one of the nation's 50,000 drugstores - past the lunch counter, the toys, the plastic raincoats, the hair lotions and tooth powders - and finally catches sight of the little glass booth marked "Prescriptions." To the pharmacist in the booth he hands a slip of paper marked with the magical device, "Ŗ" the name of a drug and a few cabalistic symbols squiggled in abbreviated Latin. A few minutes later, the customer walks out of the drugstore again, confident that...
What the Democrats lacked in noise they made up in quantity: they had so many candidates that almost every telephone booth was somebody's headquarters. Many were bewildered by bright blue "India for Veep" ribbons; they had not been worrying about the Bengal vote. (The ribbons meant that Mrs. India Edwards wanted to be Vice President...