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...over the floor management of the bill after Chairman Harry Byrd. patriarch of Democratic conservatism, objected to the revenue loss involved in its 7% in come tax credit for industries that invest in new machinery. In eight days of slashing, sarcastic debate. Kerr beat off every significant attempt to alter the bill. In a hopeless snarl of party lines, such Democratic liberals as Illinois' Paul Douglas, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Tennessee's Albert Gore found themselves arrayed against President Kennedy. Alongside them were Byrd and such steely Republican conservatives as Arizona's Barry Goldwater...
...White Collars. The new U.S. models result from Townsend's $50 million hurry-up restyling program, which he ordered after becoming administrative vice president two years ago. He imported a new styling chief, Elwood Engel, 45, from Ford last fall, too late to do much more than alter taillights and grilles. Engel's touch, which fashioned Ford's 1961 Lincoln Continental, will be felt in the Chrysler '645. For inspiration he plans to visit Cape Canaveral to watch the mis siles fly by. "Can't you just imagine," he remarks, "how beautiful one of those...
This later work, Albritton said, Wittgenstein explored the that at least some typical of philosophy have no ; to give them right or answers would be to alter existing conventions by which with such answers...
Furthermore, if we alter the title of Dallas's program, "The Principles of American Freedom in Contrast to the Tyranny of Communism," we might come up with "The Principles of Russian Freedom in Contrast to the Tyranny of Capitalism," which is probably the title of the parallel course offered in Moscow or Leningrad...
...twelfth book, British Novelist Doris Lessing copes with not just one literary chestnut but a whole treeful: the sexual odyssey of a bachelor girl, the political disillusionment of a onetime Communist, the maladjustment of the overeducated modern woman. She succeeds in creating a remarkable heroine (possibly her alter ego) who somehow manages believably to combine the qualities of Kitty Foyle, Arthur Koestler and Simone de Beauvoir. Like Mrs. Lessing, Heroine Anna Wulf is a divorced writer who explains, in four different notebooks, why she is too troubled to write. Her black notebook looks back to an African experience that...