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...Boston's salary ($26,000). Odds are that an inside war horse will get the job and try to swallow Committeeman Lee's boast that "we've got one hell of a school system"-a statement that many critics dryly regard as right on the button...
...Macmillan, 64, after bagging a paltry 28 on the first day of his shoot on the moors of Yorkshire. A jinx? Unlikely, even though the P.M. had changed his hunting suit for the first time in 36 years. The old coat-and-knickerbockers, complete with matching cap and four-button spats, had given out. But even the wiliest grouse could not have detected the change. The new coat-and-knickerbockers, complete with matching cap and four-button spats, were nearly identical to the rig he bought in 1927. "I believe that it will certainly last my lifetime," said Mac conservatively...
Forget the Kids. They told marchers to leave their children at home, strongly suggested that each marcher buy a 250 button, displaying a black hand clasping a white hand and wear it on parade. They arranged for 292 outdoor toilets, 21 portable water fountains, 22 first-aid stations manned by 40 doctors and 80 nurses to be scattered under the monument and along the route of the march...
...Technicians huddled around their electric timers. "Here he comes!" somebody shouted. A strange object that looked like a wingless jet airplane flashed into sight, roared past and disappeared, leaving waves of refracted light dancing in the brilliant desert dawn. Strapped in his cramped cockpit, Craig Breedlove, 26, pressed a button that released two colored parachutes, and the Spirit of America skidded to a halt. "All I know," he said, "is that I was moving fast." The timers told how fast: in two runs through Bonneville's measured mile, Breedlove had averaged 407.45 m.p.h. - faster than any man had ever...
...elected committee of twelve, now chaired by J.N.S. Ridgers, a specialist in deep-sea towing risks. The underwriting syndicates embrace 5,316 moneyed members-double the total in 1945-who collectively put up pieces of their personal fortunes and are liable for losses down to their last collar button. Membership is prestigious and highly prized. Among the current insiders are four Cabinet ministers (Hailsham, Maudling, Sandys, Thorneycroft), 52 M.P.s (predominantly Tory), Tycoons Charles Clore and Sir Isaac Wolfson, Actor Kenneth More and five dukes, eight marquesses, 39 earls, 90 knights and 113 baronets...