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...These guys," Tacho rasped, "want to overthrow Trujillo, and he's on an island. But they've got to have a base, and they've picked Puerto Cabezas [Nicaragua]. That means they've got to knock me out first...
...high-ceilinged library of an English manor house one rainy day this fall, a bony, white-haired priest in an oversized clerical collar pecked away at a portable typewriter. From time to time he paused to knock the ashes out of his pipe against the fireplace or consult one of the fat books stacked on the massive antique table before him. At last he stood up, pulled the paper from his typewriter and closed his reference books with a ceremonious bang. His nine-year labor was finished. Monsignor Ronald Knox had completed his translation of the Catholic Bible...
Less than an hour later, the President slipped into the penthouse. By then old Charley Ross, his press secretary, had heard enough good news to knock off for a nap. Ross got a rude awakening. Harry Truman was bouncing up & down on his bed, beaming happily. He told Ross-who had never really believed that his boss had a chance of election-that it was coming out just as he had always said it would. Harry Truman threw back his head and laughed and laughed...
...there, they admit, among Vogt's errors, prejudices, mysticism and reckless appeals to emotion, they can find iotas of truth-but not many. From the verbiage of Vogt and his fellows, three central ideas about soil can be winnowed. All of these ideas are wrong, and the scientists knock them down easily...
...left Washington for a 3,500-mile swing through the industrial Midwest, Harry Truman's face was drawn. There was no concealing that the Vinson bobble (TIME, Oct. 18) had hurt. But Truman strategists hoped that their candidate still had a Sunday punch which would knock Tom Dewey off his high pedestal and force him to fight on Truman's level...