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Rivers-and-harbors bills are sometimes referred to as "pork-barrel bills," since Congressmen often attempt to have a pet project included. But Maass and Cooper contend that "the bill is more the President's bill than is much legislation, for almost all the projects in it have been recommended...
...cannon, which resembled a funeral urn, barked some six centuries ago. Mankind has since improved the methods of mass destruction with an ingenuity that becomes distressingly evident in these pages. As early as 1453, the Turks lobbed 800-lb. shells at the walls of Constantinople. The revolver, the rifled barrel and the machine gun all date from the 17th century or earlier. By the early 1800s there were carved pistols that fired around corners and a cannonball that burst just beyond the muzzle into honed sword blades-a rude forerunner of the grenade. Dudley Pope, a naval historian and author...
Bassos, by nature's design, are made-to-order heavies - big, beefy, barrel-chested; bouncers who can carry a tune. The foghorn pitch of their voices suggests heartaches not heroics, lechery not love. Bulgaria's Nicolai Ghiaurov, at 6 ft. 2 in. and 200 Ibs., is no exception. Yet in the six short years since he emerged from behind the Iron Curtain, he has won the kind of hand-to-heart adulation usually reserved for tenors...
...Massachusetts (where the sandy-bottomed bogs of Cape Cod prove most hospitable to the berry), New Jersey, Wisconsin, Oregon and Washington State. Formed by a series of mergers in 1930, it has taken much of the risk and uncertainty out of cranberry growing, this fall paid growers $13.99 a barrel for the 1.2 million barrels that their bogs produced; at one time, the price was as low as $3 a barrel...
Peppery Pronunciamento. The President signed dozens of bills, notably the pork-barrel measure authorizing $1.9 billion for various river and harbor projects, and the $4.3 billion public works bill. After he signed the rivers-and-harbors bill, Johnson issued a peppery pronunciamento warning that he had absolutely no intention of implementing the act's provision that water-resources projects costing under $10 million be authorized by congressional public works committees-a short cut that would bypass the possibility of a presidential veto. Discussing this section, the President declared: "The people of this country did not elect me to this...