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...Louis (steel fabricating) family, he graduated with a middling record from Notre Dame and St. Louis University's medical school, and his professors thought him destined to be a society doctor. Instead, Dooley volunteered for duty as a U.S. Navy doctor, was sent to war-torn Indo-China where he took part in the 1954 evacuation of 610,000 anti-Communist refugees from North Viet...
...level," Khrushchev snorted. And when Podgorny said bad weather cut corn yields, Khrushchev gave him a brutal verbal beating. "I'm certain, Comrade Podgorny, that the figures on corn yield you just cited are only for half the crop. The other half of the corn was stolen, torn up by the roots." "Correct, Nikita Sergeevich," cringed Podgorny. Roared Khrushchev: "So what has the weather to do with it? The crop was pilfered, stolen, and yet you say weather prevented growing a good harvest. Can we put it that way?" Podgorny: "We can." Khrushchev: "Then why didn...
Promised Purge. New York's Democratic Party has been torn asunder since the state convention of 1958. Principal ripper was National Committeeman Carmine Gerard De Sapio, the dark-spectacled Tammany Hall sachem who outraged most fellow Democrats and voters by dictating the selection of the party's candidate for the U.S. Senate race, New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan. After Hogan and other Democrats were clobbered, bands of anti-De Sapio reformers in New York City clustered around aging Eleanor Roosevelt, former Governor Herbert Lehman, and former Air Force Secretary Thomas Fin-letter (who had been done...
...last week at the invitation of Morocco's King Mohammed V. Scarcely out of swaddling clothes themselves, they share a compelling tendency to run everyone else's show. Their present purpose: to tell the world that they know better than the U.N. how to straighten out riot-torn, chaotic Congo...
...last week as he lifted the 259-mile-an-hour speed restriction he had imposed on the plane nearly a year ago after two crashes took 97 lives. The FAA had taken improved Electras, their engine mounts and wings strengthened to eliminate the gyroscopic resonance (i.e., vibration) that had torn the wings off two planes, and then put them through spins and power dives in what Quesada called "probably the toughest flight check...