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...Damn Thing." But the President's pleas, including a public statement issued on the day the House was to vote on foreign-aid appropriations, seemed only to irritate the Democratic leadership of the House. Said Louisiana's Democratic Representative Otto Passman, leader of the forces aiming to slash foreign aid: "What the President wants does not mean a damn thing to me unless it makes sense." Growled Speaker Sam Rayburn: "Sometimes Congressmen shoot and cut in another direction if they are not in good humor." And Mr. Sam made it clear that he was in a foul humor...
...modestly spoke of himself in the third person: "He would like to say that when he was in bondage in the most literal sense of the word, Christ gave him royal freedom." In another exposed position on the firing line of faith is another delegate: spade-bearded Bishop Otto Dibelius, 77, head of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg, whose 5,000,000-member flock is mostly on the Red side of Germany, and who is currently under fresh attack by the Communists for a treaty with the Bonn government providing a chaplaincy for the West German armed forces...
Khrushchev, ready to be the life of the party all by himself, stepped down from the train at Berlin's Ostbahnhof to plant chummy kisses on both cheeks of Party Boss Walter Ulbricht and Premier Otto Grotewohl. With Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the agile Armenian, at his elbow as Bulganin's tardy standin, Khrushchev marched confidently through the station to inspect a bristling guard of Russian-helmeted East Germans, and take the cheers of some 10,000 Berliners conscripted from their government offices and factories for the occasion...
...Tito's Yugoslavia. Four days later came Radio Moscow's announcement: Soviet Communist Boss Nikita Khrushchev and Tito had met "somewhere in Rumania," Khrushchev had brought along a tidy delegation, including agile First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, a trade expert, and 76-year-old Otto Kuusinen, former Secretary of the Comintern. But Khrushchev's old partner, Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, did not come along, and he will not accompany the boss to East Germany next week, indicating either physical or political indisposition...
Traffic Jams. Experts have tried to isolate something of the special Novak quality. Says Director Otto (The Man with the Golden Arm) Preminger: "Novak is the way every American girl would like to look, and every man would like to have a girl like that. She is not too sophisticated. She gives you a feeling of compassion." Says Cameraman James Wong Howe, who shot Picnic: "What makes her interesting is the combination of her classical beauty with a sensual, lush quality." Says Director George (The Eddy Duchin Story) Sidney: "She has the fa cade and the equipment of a bitch...