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Dodd was spirited away to some hideaway inside the compound. It was equipped with a straw mat, a built-in bunk, even a vase of flowers. The Reds showed at once that they had not only planned the coup carefully in advance but counted on its success. Within minutes of Dodd's abduction, they began displaying large banners: "We captured General Dodd. If our problems are resolved, his security is guaranteed. If there is brutal act or shooting, his life is in danger...
Packard unveiled its new three-passenger convertible, "Pan American," only 36 inches high with the top down. The 18-foot-long car has a 165-horsepower engine with a built-in air scoop in the hood to feed air to the carburetor, and a top speed of 135 m.p.h. Its instrument panel is finished in oyster-white leather, along with leather trim in the steering wheel and door handles. When it goes into limited production next fall, the Pan American will sell for about...
Other athletic attractions are the Leverett tennis court--unique among the Houses--and the built-in squash courts...
...talked to National Committeeman Emmet Kelley, a Truman big wheel in New Hampshire, who predicted "a Truman landslide." Alsop predicted one, too, gave Kefauver an "outside chance" of "capturing just one delegate." One reason for that, Alsop said, was that Kefauver had "incautiously" transgressed "one of the great, built-in rules of American politics . . . that you simply do not challenge an incumbent President in your own party...
Beset by demands from the left for an escalator wage bill and denunciations from the right for daring to consider it, Faure staked his three-week-old government on a characteristic Gallic compromise-an escalator with a built-in landing. If the cost of living jumps more than 5%, the government would have one month to try to bring it down, before being forced to raise wages. On a procedural question, Faure won by 17 votes. But nobody cried Vive l'Aust...