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...Travell, who won her White House position by reason of her treatments for Back Patient Jack Kennedy, assured Mister Sam that his pain would disappear with heat packs and perhaps some rest back at his Texas ranch. But the House was not so sanguine; Rayburn's many friends were especially disturbed by the fact that he was recently unable to make an important floor speech on behalf of the Administration's foreign aid bill...
...trend is a logical outgrowth of the deskless office. Since most executives want to show that they are policy thinkers who leave routine paperwork to underlings, desks have tended to disappear. Furthermore, explains Arnold Maremont, president of Chicago's automotive products firm, the Maremont Corp.: "A man sitting behind a desk is a man on horseback. He becomes a dictator." The same desire for informality applies in the board room. Abandoning the austere, paneled room built around a massive, no-nonsense board table, directors of more and more firms sit on upholstered chairs and comfortable couches, chat over...
...little boy is going to come to New York some day, disappear, then eventually return to his home as a middle-aged man. When his mother says, "Where were you all this time?" he will tell her: "In the line at the Radio City Music Hall." He may even introduce her to the girl he met near the end of the queue, courted between Fifth Avenue and Rockefeller Plaza, and married at Sixth and 50th...
...paragraph assured the "poor, struggling peoples" of Russia's support and socialism's sympathy. But along with the promise of friendship went a warning. The nationalism of emergent nations, said Khrushchev, may be "historically justified" as a reaction against "imperialist " oppression," but "national narrow-mindedness does not disappear automatically with the establishment of the socialist system." Translation: The kind of nationalism that opposes the U.N. in Africa is quite all right with Russia, but beware the stubborn nationalism of Hungarian patriots who opposed the Soviets in Europe...
...children. I don't want them to get the idea their father is some kind of tinhorn celebrity-at least not until they're old enough to realize that this is an ephemeral, transitory, shallow and not very important kind of fame that can and will disappear even faster than it arrived...