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...through a rolling readjustment.* The recession of 1961 that everyone is talking about is already half over. It will bottom out early in 1961, and by the middle of 1961 we should have a boom. The worst lies between now and spring." To support this position, Byrd and others cite certain key areas of the economy...
...movement. They have demanded of Pauling the names of those scientists whom he had asked to help circulate a petition calling for an end to nuclear testing and a general agreement on disarmament. The biochemist has refused to release the names and Eastland and Dodd are now threatening to cite Pauling for contempt of Congress...
...general practice, certain scenes in U.S. films are shot twice-vividly for export and vapidly for American distribution. (Sometimes they are merely cut.) Producers and directors prefer to deny the habit. Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association, says that "no one has ever been able to cite a specific film. As far as I know, they go abroad the way they are shown here." Nonetheless, there is such a thing in Hollywood films as sex for export only. Some recent specific examples...
...congressional election in 1912 in a lunatic-fringe tract mailed from Aurora, Mo. The following year, a congressional committee investigating unfair election practices condemned the oath as a fabrication. At that time, the false oath was read into the Congressional Record, a fact that present-day bigots cite to lend it an air of authenticity. Ku Klux Klanners circulated it against Al Smith in 1928. It turned up again last spring during the West Virginia primary battle between Jack Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey. A scattering of clergymen have recently quoted it in sermons, and it has been printed in newsletters...
...went on to cite advances made in his own field of spectrophotometry and showed slides of the spectrum of light from Mars, which seem to indicate there is no oxygen on that planet. Mars' famed polar ice caps, he noted, are probably no more than frost "a few millimeters thick...