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Most noticeable in the Peace Corps office is the people. They don't stroll through the halls, they walk with a brisk stride, if not a canter. They type furiously, answer telephones at a fantastic rate, and always seem to be smiling...
...tedious preparations for flight,..sealed each time into the Mercury capsule Liberty Bell 7 on the nose of the Redstone rocket. Twice the shot was scrubbed when clouds over Cape Canaveral threatened to spoil the photographic record of the flight. Air Force Captain Grissom, 35, took it all in stride. "I'll be ready when you are," he told officials as he stretched his limbs after hours of fruitless waiting in the cramped capsule...
...what was expected of him in a literary family (his father wrote Decline and Fall at 25, and his Uncle Alec wrote Loom of Youth at 19). So "when Father told me, 'My boy, it is time you wrote your first book,' I took it in my stride...
...music is full of humor: perhaps a razzmatazz counterpoint to a rather solemn theme or quotes from other tunes slipped in slyly. A favorite Jackson trick is to imitate-without breaking stride-the style of such pianists as Erroll Garner, George Shearing or Oscar Peterson. "I can talk to Pete Rugolo in his métier," says he, "or to Count Basie in his or to Lenny Bernstein. Maybe not to Lawrence Whelp...
...something for everyone: a committee of three (one Communist, one Westerner, one neutral) to take over every major world problem. Why not? smiled Soviet Delegate Georgy Pushkin to the U.S.'s Averell Harriman at the Laos peace talks last week. "Troika means three beautiful horses moving smoothly in stride, pulling a sled." The catch is that the three must be unanimous, thus guaranteeing the Russians a veto at every step...