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...Pork Barrel. At height of recession flap, Congress rushed through a monstrous pork-barrel (rivers & harbors) bill authorizing $1.7 billion for construction projects, some without engineering studies. An Eisenhower veto brought back a more reasonable bill, which the President, somewhat reluctantly, okayed...
Without Relish. In Denver, police impounded Lorentz Haugseth's car when they found that its inspection sticker was the label from a can of pork and beans...
When a scholar has finished mining his Ph.D. from a library or laboratory, he is likely to be repaid almost as scantily in prestige as he is in pork chops. In fact, he is lucky if he is not stereotyped as "a bumbling, woolly-minded theorist, somewhat timid, thoroughly impractical, unfit for any other occupation." So says Harold Seymour, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Manhattan's Finch College, who deplores the low self-esteem of the scholars of high degree. His remedy, proposed in the Educational Record: henceforth, all Ph.D.s should insist that they be addressed as "Doctor...
...Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. disaffiliated its five stations from the networks (four from NBC, one from ABC) to go local, boasts that now all but one rank No. 1 in audience in their respective cities. The networks offer newscasts from Moscow and an occasional big name; local radio offers bargain pork chops at a nearby butcher shop, a $50,000 check that may lie buried in the listener's own backyard, a chance to shake hands with the man who spins Elvis Presley records...
...camp cook would like to know the Dulles' magic secret of producing Cordon Bleu menus in such "Thoreau-going" surroundings. A six-course dinner to please the most discriminating gourmet bubbles away on the old-fashioned stove in the time it takes me to open a can of pork and beans. If F. & J. can clean up the mess afterward-unaided by plumbing or electricity-the mess of the Middle East is in safe and efficient hands...