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judicial funds, including the pay of all federal judges and Government law yers. They transport federal prisoners (79,000 last year), serve all federal court papers, from jury notices to Supreme Court orders - a chore that often takes wit and wile. To slap a desegregation injunction on Alabama's well-guarded George Wallace, for example, one deputy marshal stowed away in the men's room aboard the Governor's plane. Marshals have been called upon to seize entire businesses, not to mention stolen art works and such other oddments as a shipment of "Helene Curtis Magic Secret...
...every stop, efficient campaign staffs reduce the journalist's duty to a minimum. Jack Valenti, President Johnson's aide, relieves newsmen of one chore by counting the times a Johnson speech is interrupted by applause. There are telephones in the press pool cars-vehicles reserved for a few correspondents chosen to represent the many, which thrust as near the candidate's limousine as safety permits. Speech texts are usually available in advance...
Johnson was not on hand to answer Barry, having sent Hubert Humphrey to handle the chore for him. In fact, Lyndon was the first presidential candidate to pass up the event since 1948. That was the year that Tom Dewey decided to send his regrets...
...despite all his elaborate machinery, at week's end Bill Scranton was reduced to performing the most disheartening chore that can come to any candidate: making personal phone calls to delegates and pleading for help that he must have known would not be forthcoming...
...computerized menus represent no attempt to automate a housewife's traditional chore. They are part of a serious and important study, financed by the U.S. Public Health Service, designed to discover whether American men still in their prime can be saved from fatal heart attacks by changes in their diet...