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...most G.O.P. politicians considered his forlorn hope for his party's presidential nomination. Invading New Hampshire, where he and Barry will meet head-on in next March's presidential primary (most observers consider Goldwater ahead), Rocky spoke to a Republican rally in Durham. He came within an inch of formally announcing his candidacy-and of admitting that he is in deep trouble. "It is no secret to any of you," he said, "that I am seriously considering running for the presidency. It is no secret either that the polls have me running far behind...
...humiliated that he will move all the way over to the extreme segregationist side;" the Press--Katzenbach suggests that if the students stay on campus even if not allowed to enroll, "it will be perfectly obvious to all those newspapermen that we haven't backed down one inch;" Morality--on Meet the Press the Attorney General recalls the President's comment "we're going to do this because it's the right thing...
Even so, Mme. Nhu could contain herself only so long. At a television interview the day after her arrival, she managed to keep her inch-long fingernails sheathed for the better part of an hour, but finally began clawing about. The U.S. Information Service, she insisted, without producing any convincing evidence, had plotted to overthrow the Diem government, and Saigon's resident U.S. newsmen had helped out. "They just dislike us," she explained...
...four children have given her a great deal of pleasure. "My elder daughter Le Thuy," Mme. Nhu gestured at the lovely seventeen-year-old who sat, poised and relaxed, across the room, "is not only a good deal taller than me--surely a sign of progress [In three inch heels Mme. Nhu stood under five feet]--but she will soon enter medical school in Vietnam. My other daughter [five years old] I expect will also have a career. But all my children shall do as they wish. I would have preferred Le Thuy to have been a lawyer...
...Microtomes that work like miniature bacon slicers on a piece of tissue no bigger than the tip of a baby's pinkie and cut it into slivers each less than one twenty-five-thousandth of an inch thick...