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Dwight Eisenhower's 1955 heart attack, the most highly publicized coronary occlusion in history, is usually cited as the trigger of this national impulse to perspire for the sake of health. Eisenhower's heart specialist, Paul Dudley White, seized his moment of national prominence to lecture the public repeatedly on its deplorable shape, suggesting that the tone of the body has much to do with the pace of the mind. "The better the legs," said White, still bicycling today at 81, "the clearer the brain." There is little doubt that some triggering was necessary. For the first time...
...time of the bombing. When Watkins refused, Lawyer Buckley pulled a knife. Watkins was dragged from the car and knocked around. One of the Klansmen stuck a pistol in his face. "There's one bullet in this gun," he said. "I'm gonna keep pulling the trigger until you say what we want you to or until I kill you." Said Buckley: "Let me get back in the car and run him over...
...advocates of the plan pointed out that demand should double in a decade. More important, they predicted that steel production could trigger a new era of industrial growth. So far, Taiwan's businessmen have concentrated on light manufacturing items such as electronic components and consumer goods; a steel plant could produce a heavy-machinery industry and give further impetus to the country's infant shipbuilding efforts...
...Every half-hour the radio grimly warned: "The Saigon-Cholon area is not considered secure. Firefights and sniper fire are expected to continue. Do not travel on foot. All vehicles must have an armed escort." Flak-jacketed American MPs, weapons at the ready, roared along the tree-shaded boulevards. Trigger-happy police fired frantically in the air to halt vehicles approaching checkpoints and barricades strung about the city. Tough ARVN marines and paratroopers blasted their way through narrow alleys in running gun battles with the Viet Cong, 700 to 1,000 of whom were believed still mingling with the city...
Warren warned that the court's action might then trigger a fusillade of parallel attacks by persons required to register dealings in such items as narcotics and distillery equipment...