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...foreign-aid time, there are few sharper antagonists in the House than Louisiana Democrat Otto Passman and Minnesota Republican Walter Judd-Passman passionately against, Judd dourly for. Louisiana's Passman, 59, onetime refrigerator distributor and World War II Navy materiel and procurement officer, seven-term Congressman and Appropriations Committee axman, is an acknowledged expert who knows how to find every foreign-aid dollar in every foreign-aid pipeline and how to take maximum debating advantage thereof. Minnesota's Dr. Judd. 60, onetime medical missionary in China, is a nine-term Congressman and Foreign Affairs Committee veteran who just...
Last week, as the House considered the President's request for $3.9 billion for foreign aid in fiscal 1960, the rivals took to the floor, soon moved from statistics and specifics to their basic philosophies. Said Otto Passman, dazzlingly arrayed in a crisp white linen suit: "First, we cannot spend ourselves rich. Second, we cannot make ourselves secure by giving ourselves away. Third, we cannot buy friends. We were once told that foreign aid would stop Communism. Now we are told it is our duty to buy our way of life for countries all over the world...
...debate's end the House, by 279,136, upheld Otto Passman, upheld the Appropriations Committee's slash of foreign-aid funds from the President's $3.9 billion to $3.1 billion, including $435 million lopped off U.S. military aid to U.S. allies...
...Marine Corps servicemen, high civilian brass and Congressmen turned out for a unique demonstration of interservice unity. They were there to salute two four-star Air Force generals who, in distinguished careers in World War II and the cold war, had come to symbolize that interservice unity. The generals: Otto P. Weyland, 57, boss of Tactical Air Command, and Earle Everard Partridge, 59, head of North American Air Defense Command-both at the point of retirement...
Anatomy of a Murder. Producer-Director Otto Preminger's brilliant courtroom drama involving murder, rape and outspoken language about both. James Stewart as a deceptively easygoing lawyer and Lee Remick as an accident-prone tart are excellent, but famed Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch steals the show as the judge...