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...influence peddling, and his successor was hardly in office before clouds gathered over him too. The public worked up quite a head of indignant steam over scandals in the Bureau of Internal Revenue, which was taking more of its money than ever before. This indignation fell like a load of hay on Harry Truman. Perhaps it would be the understatement of the year to say that 1951 was not Truman's year...
Second time out, in The Seasons' Difference, he runs wide around the turns of meaning, breaks stride in the stretch and pulls up lame at the finish. As before, Novelist Buechner carries a minimum plot load, but the gravity of his theme is enough to make him stumble. He sets himself two problems that have tripped up better novelists: 1) to etch the profile of a saint without making him a prig, 2) to make a religious experience ring with the homely authority of an alarm clock...
...courses. He was also sports editor of the college annual, wrote a column for the college paper, covered high-school sports for the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and on Sundays held down a job as a reporter for the United Press. The dean's office thought his load was a heavy one, but saw no particular reason to ask Starr to ease...
Ultimate Plenty? For one thing, even after the leveling-off stage in arms production is reached, the security program calls for a permanent arms budget of at least $50 billion a year. The expanded U.S. economy can shoulder such a load-and the present $70 billion tax program can finance...
Matching Ensemble. In Carson City, Nev., after a trusty made off with one of the state prison's red trucks, sold its load of farm equipment, and stopped for several drinks before abandoning it, Warden Arthur Bernard ordered the prison rolling stock repainted with large black & white stripes...