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During a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan Twining excused himself, strode back to his desk in Room 4E929 in the Pentagon. He smoothed his jacket, laid aside his inevitable cigar, nodded to an aide. At the signal a door swung open and a Russian officer resplendent in a white uniform walked in and introduced himself: Colonel Philip Bachinsky, the Soviet air attache in Washington. Bachinsky politely conveyed to Nate Twining the compliments of Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky, chief of staff of the Red army, and presented an invitation: Sokolovsky requested the pleasure...
...remarked, "As you know, I was ill last fall. I can only say this; now the only way I know is because the doctors keep reminding me of it." Having countered another Democratic dig, chipper Candidate Eisenhower acknowledged an ovation of handclaps, shouts and ear-tingling whistles and strode...
Outside the Army's Walter Reed Hospital two little girls, outfitted in matching red coats, slipped away from their mother and pushed their way to the front of the crowd. They got there just in time to meet the President of the U.S. as he strode hatless and grinning out of the hospital door and down the steps. Jovially, he shook the hand of the first, tousled the hair of the second, then stepped into a waiting limousine and was driven away...
...first vote, against a Republican leadership motion to send the bill back to conference for revision, was 238 (211 Democrats, 27 Republicans) to 181 (167 Republicans, 14 Democrats). At midpoint in the roll call the outcome was clear; Louisiana Democrat Allen Ellender. chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, strode onto the floor to thump the back of his House opposite number, North Carolina's Harold Cooley. Actual passage of the bill, 237-181, was anticlimactic. Within six hours the Senate rolled it through. 50 (35 Democrats. 15 Republicans) to 35 (31 Republicans, four Democrats), and sent...
...Misplaced Person Milstein, at a loss for details on exactly where, appealed for help to the Chicago Tribune's omniscient Drama & Musicritic Claudia Cassidy. Manning her telephone, Claudia finally hit on the right place, just an hour before curtain time. At 8 p.m. Fiddler Milstein, calm but breathless, strode onstage at Northwestern University's Cahn Auditorium, played, just as the printed program promised he would...