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...Painless Extraction. In St. Louis, the Internal Revenue Office's 40 secretaries completed an etiquette course in which they learned to pronounce the names of VIPs. i.e., taxpayers, correctly, and with a "rising inflection as though you are asking a question...
...smallpox vaccination is a painless, one-shot affair. Nonetheless, it is necessary, since those who cannot produce a certificate vouching for their vaccination will find it difficult to persuade U.S. officials to allow them to re-enter the country...
...Israelite's keenest fillip comes from Golden's saucy good sense on issues affecting racial and religious minorities. Last summer, while the North Carolina legislature was concocting elaborate legal stratagems to preserve segregation in the public schools, Harry Golden devised a painless formula for desegregation, based on his observation that deep-seated racial prejudices disappear when Southerners stand up. Explaining his Golden Vertical Negro Plan in the Israelite, Golden deadpanned: "The South, voluntarily, has all but eliminated vertical segregation. The white and Negro stand at the same grocery and supermarket counters, deposit money at the same bank teller...
...fought for passage of the 1954 farm law that substituted semiflexible price supports for the Democrats' rigid supports, but agreed to limit the range of flexibility so that actual supports did not drop much. He once considered the soil bank a Democratic gimcrack, now embraces it as a painless way to cut surpluses. And in the 1958 budget he asked for an unprecedented $4.9 billion for agriculture, the largest farm outlay in U.S. history. Benson's vigorous program to sell off surpluses at home and abroad has worked; the surplus cutback augurs well for future farm stability; farm...
During the past year, the Vatican announced, the 80-year-old Pope received a million people in audiences, delivered more than 200 major speeches and radio addresses, not to mention minor messages and talks. His visitors comprised all sorts, conditions and faiths. Before 700 gynecologists the Pope discussed painless childbirth; he lectured racing drivers and members of an Italian automobile club on politeness; he received Germany's Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Otto Dibelius and U.S. Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss, the workers of Lombardy, the Roman nobility, 360 U.S. servicemen from NATO, and officials of the U.N. Office of Public...