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...States Senate last Wednesday. By a vote of 50-35 the lawmakers took a resource that belongs to the whole country and bestowed it on three states. The resource was our oil-rich submerged coastal lands; the booty was large enough to make the annual Rivers and Harbors pork barrel look like a teacup...
Government Spending: FOR: all major Administration appropriations bills; led the fight for funds to expand TVA power facilities with the Johnsonville steam plant. AGAINST (with Truman): all major attempts to trim fat and pork-barrel projects out of Rivers & Harbors bills and other congressional appropriations...
...incident, as it turns out was nothing but a practical joke, although of a very poor taste. It seems that the best warning or punishment against that kind of prank should have been the sort of spanking that parents would give to children caught playing with matches near a barrel of gun powder, i.e., a good old spanking, moral if not physical. In the end, that what the boys...
...Kuwait 18 years ago, it did not worry too much about pleasing the Sheik or sharing the new-found wealth with the people. Iran changed all that. As soon as Mossadegh got into power, K.O.C. sought out the Sheik-who had been getting a measly royalty of 10^ a barrel-and offered him a 50-50 split of profits, before taxes. This year, facing the pleasant prospect of a return of more than $200 million, the Sheik also faces a problem: how to spend it on his tiny, backward kingdom without creating inflation...
Burt Lancaster has got just the kind of slim-hipped, narrow waisted, barrel-chested, broad-shouldered, square-jawed physique that looks good in those tight uniforms they issue in the French Foreign Legion. Lancaster looks even better when he starts moving around, leaping on horses, wrestling with Riffs and Arabian princesses...