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...lose-if they try to change the rules. Nothing controversial in that case would come to the floor of the Congress. Our whole program in my opinion would be emasculated." Which is pretty much what Judge Smith had in mind, and he was not backing down an inch. "The Rules Committee issue," he said, "is not negotiable...
...poisoning is detected and stopped in time, the effects are less severe. A girl whose condition was diagnosed when she was only 22 months old already had some permanent bone damage; she is now twelve and there is a leg-length difference of only about a quarter of an inch...
...Fail-Safe System. Stouffer's recipe for success is to concentrate on plain dishes prepared the way Mom used to make them, and to have only women do the cooking. Five-foot five-inch Vernon Stouffer, 61, who is married and the father of three, is convinced that "women know food better than men. They like to fuss with foods-they care more." Stouffer's food is unlikely to send a gourmet into raptures, or to show much evidence of fuss, but it is inevitably eatable, usually tasty, always well-served, and priced moderately. The economy luncheon special...
...Richard Nixon must now come to an end. Mr. Nixon would have brought greatness to the governorship of California-and it would have given us another chance to vote him into the presidency of the U.S. This man has more patriotism, more devotion to his fellow Americans, per square inch, than most of us have to our own egos...
...cars, growing prospects for a dollar-green Christmas in the stores -all these have contributed to a shift toward optimism in the business community. The new consensus is that the economy may actually rise a bit in the first half of 1963, and at worst will inch down only slightly. On Wall Street, the changed mood was reflected last week in the Dow-Jones industrial average, which rose 14.85 to close at just under 631. The market has risen more than 60 points in the past three weeks...