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...issues of the campaign: housing and high prices. His message asked for passage of the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill and most of the ten-point anti-inflation program he had put before Congress last fall, including standby authority to ration and control the prices of scarce commodities "which vitally affect . . . health and welfare...
...Charles II) to new activity against the House of Windsor, or bring Anne of Cleves's Dutch connections flocking to London to claim a place at court, the Lords were careful to add a rider. "This act," they informed anyone nursing an old grudge or claim, "shall not affect the validity, invalidity, effect or consequences of anything done or suffered, or any existing status or capacity, or any right, title, obligation or liability...
John had gone ahead with the job, on the principle that "the portrait painter should allow no moral bias to affect his attitude to the sitter. The exploration of character should be left, with confidence, to the eye alone. Heaven knows what it may discover!" In Fuller, John's glaring eye discovered a well-fed man of conscience-dignified, amiable, and perhaps not particularly intelligent...
...TIME, April 12) sounded off. Addressing a University of Kansas audience, he said: "I have tried to be kind to Arthur Capper. I love him. But I don't want to have a man 80 or 90 years old representing us in writing the [peace] treaty that will affect you students and my grandson." The word went down the line that only a miracle could now elect old Arthur Capper...
...will television affect U.S. family life? "It will re-cement it," insists CBS's Vice President Adrian Murphy. "I talked with a man who had seen his teen-age daughter for the first time in two months. He bought a set, and now she brings her boy friends home." At first television's novelty value was so high that it some times altered the usual standards of hospitality. Many TV owners, faced with a houseful of curious friends & neighbors, required regulars to bring their own refreshments...