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...position on issues-state, national and international -that he had outlined in his opening statement: "Decisions made in the United States Senate will indicate whether the free world or the Communist world will prevail. And if America is to make progress, Massachusetts must make progress." Under questioning from a panel of newsmen, the two got down to disagreement on some specific issues. McCormack said he favored an immediate tax cut "because I don't believe this country is moving as it should." Kennedy noted that he was plumping for such programs as aid to education (although not, like McCormack...
...have been haggling bitterly about details. Nixon wanted four debates, Brown only one; they compromised on two, but on nothing else. Brown wants a format similar to that used in the Nixon-Kennedy debates, in which each man spoke for a few minutes, then answered questions put by a panel of newsmen. Nixon wants a straight head-on debate. Brown wants to discuss only California issues; Nixon wants no limitation on subject matter...
...Stop!" A man jumped from the rear of a Renault panel truck and opened fire with a submachine gun. From a Citroen parked on the other side of the road 50 yds. ahead, two other gunmen sprayed the presidential convoy with bullets. As glass splintered and lead thudded into the chassis, Son-in-law de Boissieu shouted to the driver, "Above all, don't stop!" Then De Boissieu reached back and pulled De Gaulle and his wife to the floor. The driver stepped on the gas and narrowly averted a smashup when another burst of gunfire blew...
...N.E.B.'s ten-man team of Old Testament scholars, made it clear that the translation of the Old Testament will raise exactly the same kind of hopes and hackles. He reported that 21 of the 39 Old Testament books have been completely translated and passed by the anonymous panel of literary experts-including two poets and a number of university professors-who approve the translation's English style. Others are in progress, but three of the books have not yet been started...
...small boys behave. After that apparition, though, the monster disappeared for some years, possibly spent in a beauty parlor. At any rate, when he reappeared as Claude Rains in the 1943 production, he looked disconcertingly like Liberace. Indignant, the critics told him to go right back through that secret panel and take his Ugly Pills...