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...marshals all the self-indulgence and inertia in his soul as she smothers him with affection, murmuring soothingly over and over that he must rest, that he must forget about politics, that he should live out his life at Hyde Park. In a tremendous confrontation, the hero slays the dragon and thenceforth is able to call his soul his own. In the final sequence, crutch-borne but triumphant, he hobbles up to the lectern where he will nominate Al Smith and resume the role that history had given him to play...
...Richard Nixon the week's least welcome endorsement came from Tampa Private Eye William J. Griffin, Grand Dragon of the Florida Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...
Although the Greeks started Olympic competition, they have not done much about it in recent years; indeed, until last week, they had not won a gold medal since 1912. Ending the drought was a Dragon Class yachtsman-and crown prince-Constantino, 20. When the victorious, shorts-clad prince came ashore at Santa Lucia, King Paul and Queen Frederika-themselves sailing buffs-jettisoned royal reserve to hug the handsome champion. Then the queen stepped aside while Constantine's two royal sisters showed their exuberance by pushing him right back into Naples...
...bossed the Army missile program and helped put the U.S. into space last week took on an unlikely new job. Major General (ret.) John B. Medaris, 58, who quit the Army six months ago to protest the Administration's "reluctant dragon" attitude toward space, was named president and chief executive officer of the Lionel Corp., the nation's largest producer of miniature trains (1959 sales: $15.8 million). Medaris' special qualification for the job, aside from proved administrative abilities: a longtime fondness for electric trains, which he used to collect...
...miko is a kind of medium and rural sorceress to whom people come for advice on marriage and business. This particular miko had a large following of women in what the Japanese politely call "the water trades"-prostitutes, bar hostesses, geishas. The miko told them to worship the Eight Dragon God at the Ryusenji Temple. That tore it. Last week at Ryusenji, 200 dignitaries, headed by the Governor of Nara, chanted sutras and presented altar lilies to the brand-new vermilion temple, which was being dedicated to replace the old one, burned down in 1946. And 500 women arrived...