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Deepfreeze Artist. The result was a shouting, table-pounding committee session, with Democrats Douglas and Fulbright trading insults. Fulbright, cried Douglas, had shoved his bill into a "stacked" subcommittee, where "the guillotine would fall, its head would be chopped off. [Fulbright] is a Deepfreeze artist." Fulbright insisted that his bill was merely a "very small amendment" to an already existing program. Shouted Douglas: "Two billions may seem small to the Senator from Arkansas, but it seems rather large to the Senator from Illinois." Retorted Fulbright, dragging in the massive embezzlements uncovered in Illinois' Republican state administration...
...result of the whole fracas was that not even Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's priority order was enough to get Fulbright's bill out of committee without a humiliating compromise. By an 8-to-5 vote, the committee rammed down Fulbright's throat a resolution making area assistance. Douglas-Payne style, the first order of business after the Fulbright measure...
...soda fountain. After his mother's death, in 1920 he ambled onto the University of Arkansas, where he was immensely popular and immensely relaxed. "I guess all the boys were lazy," recalls a college chum, "but Ed was more than ordinary lazy." Arkansas' U.S. Senator James William Fulbright, then a lowerclassman and later president of the university, gives Ed full marks as a storyteller and cartoonist. Beyond that, Stone seemed content to remain a lady's man (despite his baggy-kneed appearance) and to join the boys in downing mountain dew. Finally the spinster head...
...Vera Little is a strapping, 27-year-old Memphis girl who went to Europe on a Fulbright fellowship in 1954 to study voice at the Paris Conservatory. While on a concert tour, she dropped into a Hamburg café one day, was spotted by an opera official. "That's exactly the kind of girl wre're looking for to sing Carmen," he said to his companion. "Pity she's not a singer." Said his companion, a friend of Vera's: "But she is-and besides she's a mezzo." Next day Soprano Little flew...
...were drafting six other recession-inspired bills, calling for increased federal spending for: roads (Gore), housing (Alabama's John Spark-man), hospitals (Alabama's Lister Hill), reclamation (New Mexico's Clinton Anderson), flood control (Oklahoma's Robert Kerr), aid to small business (Arkansas' William Fulbright...