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...great day. At Long Island's Jones Beach, he kissed his first baby of the 1960 campaign and got the father's promise of a vote. At Coney Island, a coatless, tieless, wide-grinning Lodge, ringed by a flock of oohing-aahing teenagers, made his way to Nathan's celebrated hot-dog emporium, cheerfully gulped down a well-mustarded Nathan's Famous...
Francis Powers appears to have altered Nathan Male's famous quotation, "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country...
...nameless U.S. official's reference to Francis Powers as "no Nathan Hale," it is time we remembered that Mr. Kale's inspiring words were uttered on the gallows, not in the prisoner's dock. Heroic last words should not be compared with a defense action in a trial at law, albeit a "rigged" trial...
...tall new buildings, the bustling St. Johns River traffic, the tony seaside country clubs-Jacksonville is more akin in spirit to nearby cracker towns in south Georgia than to cosmopolitan southern Florida, and seems to have reverted to type. Its newest school was named after Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest, and even the kids knew that "Fustest with the mostest" Forrest was one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan. Mayor Haydon Burns is a 48-year-old segregationist with his eye on the Governor's chair and a shuddering distaste for doing anything to promote racial...
...Nathan arrives at work by 4 a.m. every summer day to taste each batch of raw hot dogs. His formula: garlic, paprika and top-grade steer meat so lean that it will not pop the hot dog open when it is grilled - all encased in sheep membrane to give the dog just the right snap when bitten. When an upstate member of the New York state senate once derided a bill as being "as old and wrinkled as a warmed-over Coney Island hot dog," Nathan's indignantly fired off a batch of hot dogs to the state capital...