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...took a budgetary mauling. But Congress was not really of a firm economy mind: it did not hesitate to vote $1,000,000 for new Senate office furniture, or to provide for the House's new $60 million office building, or to lay out $858 million for pork-barrel projects, or to ante up a $317 million pay raise for 518,000 postal workers (without increasing postal rates to cover the cost...
...Miss Gibson." wrote Tennis Great Alice Marble angrily in American Lawn Tennis, "is over a cunningly wrought barrel, and I can only hope to loosen a few of its staves with one lone opinion. I think it's time we faced a few facts. If tennis is a game for ladies and gentlemen, it's also time we acted a little more like gentlepeople and less like sanctimonious hypocrites...
...metallurgical coke are obtained from the cracking process for sale at about $30 a ton to the coke-shy aluminum-smelting industry. So good is the gasoline obtained from Gilsonite that it has a higher octane rating than several premium leaded brands. American Gilsonite figures the cost of a barrel of its crude, laid down at the refinery, is $1.50 to $2, v. $3.25 for a barrel of liquid petroleum. And the supply old Sam Gilson found is enough to operate the plant for over 50 years. With rights to 60% of all the known Gilsonite in the world...
...Barrel-chested, walrus-mustached K.I. Singh, 54, onetime Indian army clerk and practicing homeopathic physician, earned the sobriquet "Robin Hood of the Himalayas" when he began parceling out land to peasant farmers during a nationwide revolt against the autocratic Rana dynasty in 1950. Worried by Singh's deeds of derring-do as head of a band of ragged Nepalese army irregulars, nervous Indian army "observers" stationed in Nepal clapped him into jail. He escaped the Indians, but was picked up again. One night in 1952 Singh broke jail and led a coup that captured the capital's airfield...
...fact the lowest competitive market prices." The Justice Department would not say whether it will appeal the case, or even whether it will bring Jersey Standard and Socony to trial. But it may well be that Judge Murphy's strong opinion knocked the bottom out of the barrel...