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...daylight came, the lonely cluster of buildings on the edge of the great dry valley hummed with nervous tension. This rocket, the Viking II, had misfired two weeks before, and a rocket that has once misfired makes everyone a little nervous. Sometimes rockets "walk" (i.e., move sidewise) on firing; sometimes they explode prematurely. On such occasions the control blockhouse, which looks like a concrete igloo, is a good place...
Down in the White House basement, Harry Truman stood close to the cluster of microphones and faced the hot stare of television cameras. He sounded like the Truman of campaign days as he spoke to the nation in his chatty Missouri twang. "Now, some people are saying . . . that we're in a depression," said the President...
There, in a cluster of white buildings, they have been leading a life of almost monastic asceticism. They row, they eat, and they sleep. The practices at Red Top are a culmination of a year's work that has molded eight strong guys into a powerful crew. It may not be apparent to the layman, but that is a lot of molding...
Leaving Harry Truman's office last week, the Administration's congressional leaders stood in a little cluster, wearing the aggressively confident expressions that politicians put on when they face a pack of reporters. They let Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas do most of the talking. Recently returned to duty after a long bout with his stomach ulcers, he was a tailor's symphony in brown, and eager to make news. Congress, he said, could adjourn by July 31 or early August at the latest. The implication was clear: Harry Truman had decided not to press...
...plushiest red carpet for the wan, wiry veteran of the cold war. At the airport Louis Johnson bundled him into a long, black Cadillac and whisked him off to the White House. There, in the sunlight of the presidential rose garden; President Truman pinned a second Oak Leaf Cluster on the riband of General Clay's Distinguished Service Medal and read a praise-packed citation he had written himself. "General Clay," intoned the President, ". . . proved himself not only a soldier in the finest tradition . . . not only an administrator of rare skill, but a statesman of the highest order...