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...comin' to the Inauguration, Aunt Jessie?" asked the Chief. Mrs. Jes sie Hunter, a widow and an old friend of the family, shook her head, flustered. "I haven't been asked," she piped politely. The President of the U.S. put his arm around the elderly woman. "Pack your dress," he said in that soft, earnest tone, "and come on with us. Be at the ranch no later than 4:40. Air Force One won't leave without...
...Colorado Republican John Love, halfway through his four-year term, thought he saw storm warnings when he asked for a 1% increase in the state's sales tax and a 2?-a-pack additional tax on cigarettes. He was right. Not only was Love saddled with his first divided legislature (Republican senate, Democratic house), which boded ill for his tax-increase plans, but even some fellow Republicans were against the idea...
...rabbit." Next, the dog graduates to chasing a plastic bunny -like Swifty, the mechanical rabbit at the track. Bad habits show up early, and they are often impossible to correct. The classic case is a greyhound named Terris Foot, who competed in hurdle races and always led the pack up to the final jump-where he always fell down. His handler decided to try him in a flat race. Terris Foot kept right on jumping, and when he reached the spot where the last nonexistent hurdle would have been, he fell down...
...squash, Lowell leads the pack with a 6-0 record. They are followed by Eliot (3-0) and Leverett...
...majority in the Senate, yet could not get his own party to support his desire to annex Santo Domingo. And Franklin Roosevelt's overwhelmingly Democratic 75th Congress (1937-38) turned on the President and killed many of his New Deal bills because F.D.R. had autocratically tried to pack the Supreme Court with liberals...