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...hardscrabble life, with scant plumbing and no electricity and few creature comforts. During hot spells, the neighbors pumped so much water that the Ryans could not raise water in the daytime, had to spend the night hours vigorously pumping. "It was very primitive," admits Pat Nixon, but since nobody in Artesia was any better off, it seemed to be a perfectly normal existence...
...would have had scant chance of success. I.B.E.W. Local 26 has defied all pleas, threats and cajolery. In 1957 the President's Committee, headed by Vice President Nixon, invited executives from 13 international and local building-trades unions to a meeting to discuss dropping the color bar; only three showed up. Then it called a separate huddle with the leaders of Local 26; none showed up. Later, Nixon personally wrote a note to I.B.E.W. International President Gordon Freeman, admonished him to crack down on Local 26. Freeman did not answer...
...precisely like three zinc tubs in this Radcliffe dormitory that are essential to our ideal of gracious living. To imply that such accouterments are passé, ridiculous, and suitable only for portly six-footers is arbitrary, unjust, and unfair. Such tubs remain entirely serviceable, even for those a scant five feet tall...
...working force of 66 million, commuters make up a scant 10 million. Yet their daily cycle from home to work accounts for a larger volume of passenger traffic than any other type of weekday travel. Six million of them get to work and back home by auto, 450,000 by train, 3,550,000 by bus, subway or rapid transit. Others ingeniously make the trip by airplane, helicopter, bicycle, motor scooter, powerboat and, in the case of one hardy California commuter, by kayak...
...knew as well that Eliot wasn't doing the choosing. In fact, the chairman of the selection committee asked to consider 24 possible names later reported, "It took about one look at the list to make it clear that the only real candidate was A. Lawrence Lowell." A scant two weeks later, Lowell's election had been confirmed by both the Corporation and the Overseers...