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...morning, sometimes at 1:30 at night, and drop in for unexpected inspections. He continues to supervise Luzerne County patronage, and often angers the regulars by handing jobs to defeated political enemies as consolation prizes. He always likes to play his cards close to the chest: he rarely announces a slate of candidates until the last possible minute of the last...
...nearer he gets to the end of his term, the harder it seems for Harry Truman to keep from thumping his presidential chest...
...friendship does not blind him to its drawbacks-its intrigue, its financial irresponsibility (the way delegates like to travel at someone else's expense), or its futility. Last week, having quit after six years as New Zealand's chief delegate, Sir Carl got his opinions off his chest at a meeting of the U.N. association back home in Wellington...
...hard-core North Koreans in Compound 76-the gang that engineered the abduction of Brigadier General (now Colonel) Francis T. Dodd. To impress 76's inmates, he staged a rehearsal with tanks and flamethrowers in an empty compound next to theirs. The prisoners answered by digging chest-deep trenches and continuing to turn out steel-tipped spears and other crude weapons on their hidden forge...
Order of the Dragon. A golfer who wants to break par should have gold needles in the leg, chest, shoulder and cheek, and above the left eye, said Dr. de la Füye, and silver needles in the knee and belly. He also had prescriptions for swimmers, bicyclists and concert pianists...