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Would he consider seeking the presidency in the future? The Senator shrugged his arms upward, smiled broadly, and ventured, "One never knows...
With the arrival of Fischelis as graduate secretary last fall, Dudley spirit and activity took a distinct turn upward...
...rates for these part-time jobs have remained about the same as last year; so-more work has to be done to get the same spending power. But for those doing full-time jobs, such as secretarial work, wages have adjusted upward along with the cost of living
...told a House subcommittee about some of his generous acquaintances. Punctuating his testimony with such exclamations as "Oh, my soul... Lord have mercy . . . Lord God almighty," Caudle writhed on the witness stand, lifting his hands above his head, joining them as if in prayer and rolling his banjo eyes upward. In a cotton-thick North Carolina drawl, he denied that he had done any tax favors for the men who treated him so generously...
...some bending of radio waves in the dense lower atmosphere, conventional theory could not explain what was happening. Feinstein knew that just as there is some light reflected back when light waves pass from air through glass, a small amount of V.H.F. energy is reflected when V.H.F. waves cut upward through the thinning atmosphere. Perhaps, he reasoned, if minute amounts of this energy are reflected in such a way that they reinforce each other, weak but detectable signals will be heard at unexpected distances...