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...Billy's main escape is the life of his imagination, the land of Ambrosia--a fanciful municipality which he liberates and defends. In his humdrum real world, Billy is office boy and small time wheeler dealer. In Ambrosia he is Army General and poet laureate, capitalist-magnate, dictator, and idol of millions. His face beams down on cheering throngs from billboards and placards. Everywhere he is trailed by admiring troops and adoring women. Yet Ambrosia is only the infantile country of William Steig's "Dreams of Glory." Clearly, Billy's imagination has been spoon-fed and molded from childhood...
City Councillor Cornelia B. Wheeler, who introduced the order, said she only wished to have police officers speak to the jaywalkers. She claimed that the situation in the Square is so serious that it might lead to fatalities or injury...
Punchy Politics. Clearly pleased by his ever-growing rating in current candidates' polls ("I say with confidence tonight that one of those whom you will hear on this program will be the next President of the U.S.!"), Nixon slammed the Johnson Administration as "wheeler-dealers and political fixers," whacked the Democrats mercilessly for failure in world leadership. "There is no major area in the world," said he, "where the cause of freedom is not worse off today than it was four years ago. In Asia-Viet Nam, which is now our baby 100%, will be down the drain...
...Texas Way. Baker kept right on buying Magic stock-with borrowed money. One who helped him was Robert F. Thompson, executive vice president of Tecon Corp., a Dallas construction firm headed by Wheeler Dealer Clint Murchison Jr. Tecon performs nearly $90 million worth of work a year for the Army Corps of Engineers. Thompson testified that he first met Baker in 1957. Where? "I thought," replied Thompson, "that it was in the office of Lyndon Johnson...
Pickets marched at both locations, carrying signs reading "Cars or People," "Save the Charles for Our Children," and "Don't Throw Our $6 Million Down the Thruway." One of the demonstrators was Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler, Cambridge City Councillor, who carried a tiny piece of cardboard that read, "How Can I Cross an Expressway to Play." Another picket, a baritone in a brown duffel coat, sang: "I think that I shall never see/A highway lovely as a tree...