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...Shell has been buzzing busily around the state, piloting his own Beechcraft Bonanza from one campaign appearance to the next. A onetime University of Southern California halfback, husky (6 ft. 2 in., 210 lbs.) Joe Shell pitches his appeal to California's right wing: "I've gotten sick and tired of calling people liberals when they're basically socialists. I find a very great surge of conservatism in California. Not a surge-an explosion...
There were not only questions, but persistent protests. "I have gotten more letters on the Congo than on any other subject, and it appears that North Carolina people feel the only offense the Katangese are guilty of is wanting to be free.'' observes Democratic Senator Sam Ervin. Michigan's Republican Representative Gerald Ford found "fear and apprehension that the Administration is too prone to negotiate and not firm enough in its attitudes." Says California's Republican Representative Al Bell of his constituents: "They feel strongly about aid to the Iron Curtain countries and the planes sent...
...Pierre Salinger's office when the "hot line" (a telephone connected only to Cabinet officers and other high officials) flashed an amber light. It was Bobby Kennedy on the wire. After a tense conversation, Jack Kennedy replaced the phone on its cradle. He looked stunned. "Dad's gotten sick," he told Salinger...
...anything in modern civilization. Miller works through this point in the course of the book; underneath the chaos of episodes, his spiritual journey winds on past illusion after illusion, towards a greater value. By the end, he has attained consciousness of the value of human sympathy, which had gotten lost in the moral swamps of the early chapters...
...Alfred Corning Clark. Insisted the Polish-born playgirl, who dabbles in painting between café society rounds: "This money would have been left to me whether I married Mr. Clark or not." Echoed her attorney: "Even if the marriage [Clark's sixth] had not survived, she would have gotten it all." Why? Well, explained Alicja, noting that she was "in no hurry" for another husband and couldn't expect to find one "as intelligent" as Clark, there had been a certain "mental communication...