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...figure fell $596 million short of the foreign aid authorization bill that had just been signed by President Kennedy, and it was achieved only after a hard fight. Under the leadership of Louisiana Democrat Otto Passman, a longtime foreign aid critic, the House Appropriations Committee had approved a bill calling for an $896 million cut from the authorized figure, including $400 million to be taken from military aid. In the maneuvering that preceded the floor debate, Passman agreed to reinstate $175 million. Then, on an amendment sent up by Michigan Republican Gerald Ford and backed by G.O.P. leaders, the House...
...Tough Way. In the heat of battle, when persuasion fails. O'Brien is perfectly willing to play it the tough way. When Louisiana's penny-pinching Representative Otto Passman decided to block a $600 million request for Latin American aid money in his House appropriations subcommittee, O'Brien's operatives went quietly behind his back, lined up enough votes to pass the bill over the chairman's objection; Passman eventually voted for the appropriation himself, rather than have it known he could not control his committee. Again, during the aid-to-education debate, Chicago...
...evidence enough of the fate that waited for them if the Reds ever managed to take over the entire city. And the intention was clearly there. When West Berliners boycotted the East German-owned S-bahn (elevated railway), which runs partly through West Berlin, East German Railway Boss Otto Arndt hinted darkly of interruptions when supplies were shipped to West Berlin...
...1920s. But costs have soared even higher: last season the Met spent $6,950,000. Opera, said Bing last week, is "an art form never designed for the economics of the 20th century." The era has passed, he might have added, when men such as the late Banker Otto Kahn, the Met's perennial chairman of 40 years ago. would look at the annual losses and scribble a six-figure check. Today, contributions account for only 12% of Met income. Pre-Depression grand opera paid its own way in the U.S., but it presumably never will again. Both Bing...
...soft-sell charm treatment. He listened to all their gripes, then argued vehemently that putting the program on a firm base of at least five years is the surest way of improving both administration and effectiveness. He even made certain that such aid foes as Louisiana's Representative Otto Passman and Brooklyn's John Rooney were exposed to a soothing sunset on the Potomac by including them in the Mount Vernon reception for President Mohammed Ayub Khan of Pakistan (see The Capital...