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...lower spine; Eleanor Roosevelt, 77, whose annual week-long checkup at a Manhattan hospital was extended for treatment of an infectious lung condition; Edward R. Murrow, 54, chain-smoking chief of the U.S. Information Agency, in a U.S. Army hospital in Teheran, Iran, with a "mild" case of pneumonia; Otto E. Passman, 62. congressional foe of foreign aid. who tripped over some plastic clothing bags in his Washington office and broke his left arm in four places...
...Senate Appropriations Committee has stuck $792 million back on the year's allocations for foreign aid. Yet cheered as the Administration must be at such a restoration it must already know that the final version of the aid bill will fall far below the $4.755 billion originally authorized. Mr. Otto Passman's subcommittee has done its work; it has persuaded the House that foreign aid is a dubious cause. When the joint House-Senate conference committee meets to consider the bill, the compromise will be less devastating than Mr. Passman might wish, but it will leave the President and A.I.D...
...happens every year. As the time approaches for Congress to vote money for foreign aid, the President of the U.S. must try to find some way of dealing with Louisiana Democrat Otto Passman, chairman of the House subcommittee that passes on foreign aid appropriations. It makes little difference what the President decides to do. For in any event Passman is certain to try to slash foreign aid to the barest nubbin. And he often succeeds...
...Still Cookin'." Otto Passman looked upon all his handiwork not as that of a butcher but as that of a master chef. Cried he in response to criticism: "They say if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Well, I'm still cookin...
...stableboy rushed up with Russell's crutches, and bare-legged chorus girls swarmed around his sulky. "How's your ankle?" Illinois Governor Otto Kerner asked solicitously. Replied happy Hambletonian Winner Russell, contemplating his 10% cut of A.C.'s Viking's $62,854 purse: "I forgot I even...