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Pageantry, hell, he thought, these track stars aren't so hot after...
...week with a screeching of brakes (TIME, Oct. 2). Ex-Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes, whom the President had characterized, according to the book, as a man who ''failed miserably" in his job and "ran out" when the President needed help, had lost no time snapping back. "Hell," said Byrnes, "if he felt that way, why should he have wanted a miserable failure around at any time . . .? My letter of resignation [was tendered] eight months previous. So he says I ran out on him? Well, I'd call that damn slow running...
...Senator Paul Douglas, Chicago Attorney Frank J. McAdams and a man named Joe who did the driving and kept the sound equipment working. Loyal Fair Dealer Douglas, not up for election himself, was campaigning hell-for-leather for his colleague, Senator Scott Lucas. To all good Democrats, the carefully creased, weary-looking Lucas was more than just another candidate. As majority leader of the Senate, he was a symbol of Democratic power. Republican ex-Congressman Everett Dirksen, who was trying to unseat him, had a good chance of doing just that. Scott Lucas had to be saved...
...grand jury on charges of bilking their neighbors, and the state's attorney began trying to untangle the knotted threads of the great Ford swindle. The beauty operator wept. "I've lived in terror the last two years," she complained. "My life has been a hell...
...supply with water pumped from the island's flanking rivers. Policemen would make their way into the devastated area, directing squads of mechanics who would turn off gas mains, burn through tangled girders, tunnel into debris after the entombed. Health department squads would penetrate into the dust-thick hell, monitoring radioactivity. Rescue squads and equipment would be ordered to the scene from undamaged, outlying communities...