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Even those Washingtonians who endure, rather than enjoy protocol, agreed that it couldn't have been laid on for a nicer guy than for handsome Galo Plaza, who himself loathes protocol. Senators and Representatives cottoned to a visitor who could talk their language the way they liked to hear it; they applauded him 17 times during his ably delivered, 20-minute address before a joint session. During his stay in the capital, Plaza also saw a baseball game between Washington and Detroit (Washington won 6-3), visited Mount Vernon...
...California on duty in San Diego, Chaplain Sporrer said only that "military authorities" had ordered him to keep quiet. The Navy had also sent him a letter of admonition, which is tougher than a letter of caution, but a notch nicer than a letter of reprimand...
...committee and the public at large are desirous of having gambling run by a "nicer set of fellows," and at the same time directing the flow of billions into the Treasury, rather than into the hands of corrupt officials, there is a simple solution: legalized gambling...
...should be prohibited. He likes a quiet game of stud poker himself. And most U.S. citizens would hate to give up the right to lose-or the hope of winning-a fast buck. But it would be nice if Estes Kefauver could arrange to have it run by a nicer set of fellows...
...Body Shop." Dazzled and obviously infatuated in its turn, the Air Force did something last week that Molly thought was even nicer than giving her free airplane rides. It commissioned her a lieutenant colonel in the WAF Reserve. This meant that Molly (with Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith, who was also recently commissioned a lieutenant colonel) was outranked by no woman in the WAF except Colonel Geraldine May, WAF commander...