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...poverty-haunted New Deal politician pulse like an alternating current. He is overbearing to his aides, then suddenly overwhelmingly considerate; cynical about men's motives, yet sentimental enough to weep when a group of Texas Congressmen presented him with a laudatory plaque; incredibly thin-skinned, yet able to brush off some criticism with the comment, "My daddy told me that if you don't want to get shot at, stay oft the firing line." He prides himself on being a shrewd judge of men's strengths and failings; yet he was, at the very least, unperceptive enough...
Geiger described a midwives "training meeting: "First, there was inspection of bags, during which such unsuitable tools as nail files were removed. Then the "midwives' song" was sung to the tune of "This is the Way We Brush Our Teeth...
Through Prickly Pear. Moursund is an all-round man in the best Texas tradition. He controls a local bank. He can survey land, brand cattle, ride a horse through prickly pear cactus, steer his Lincoln Continental through cedar brush in pursuit of game, drop a deer with unerring aim, then gut and skin the animal. To the Judge ranching is more of a pleasure than a source of income. Explains an associate: "He gets a real kick out of manipulating cattle from one pasture to another." He also enjoys food in quantity. When he speaks of a "couple of hamburgers...
Having carefully built his case against federal urban renewal, Anderson pauses a moment to brush away any possibilities of modifying "an inherently bad program," and then launches into his soapbox appeal. For obvious reasons, he doesn't waste much time trying to defend empirically his gospel that "private enterprise can." Such defense as he offers--in the chapter on "The Quality of Housing"--rests on statistics showing that the greatest improvements in the overall quality of city housing between 1950 and 1960 came from the efforts of unaided private builders...
...that begins at 6:45 a.m. with a brisk run on a gravel road followed by hot and cold showers. Though neither an outstanding student nor athlete, he mixes well, and his public image is that of a healthy boy with a mop of hair that defies comb and brush. When it was suggested that he has a Beatle's haircut, His Royal Highness Charles Philip Arthur George, heir apparent to the British throne, grinned and said, "You mean the Beatles have a Prince Charles...