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...public can now reappraise the merits of the ''economy-minded" 88th Congress. Space satellites, B-52s, and vital foreign aid seem to have taken a secondary role to new Senate offices and pork-barrel legislation...
...Speaker of the House of Representatives, with powers far beyond those of Sam Rayburn in Washington, Laurel exercises a firm control over the rich congressional pork barrel. Last July President Garcia "released" some $10 million of public funds to dole-hungry Nacionalista Congressmen, and he has promised another $60 million. Much of this money goes through Laurel's hands. But José is frowned upon by the church; he has an unsavory reputation as a hard drinker and a frequenter of nightclubs, where he has an irritable habit of picking on customers whose looks displease him. His victims...
...house Grand National Assembly, which is dominated by Menderes' Democratic Party, rushed through appropriations for new highways and schools and even repairs on mosques in farm villages. It declared a one-year moratorium on $345 million in farmers' debts to the government. This was familiar pork-barrel politics. But in his determination to win the October election, Menderes added another touch. His supporters rammed through a law that forbids Turkey's three other parties to form an election coalition against Menderes. The law prevents candidates from changing parties and bars mixed tickets...
Four Bags Full (Franco London; Trans-Lux) of black-market pork are lugged across Nazi-held Paris by Jean Gabin and Comedian Bourvil in this delightful shaggy-dog story. That the French can now joke about the German occupation is not surprising. But the movie, winner of France's "best film" Victoire, explodes with humor, testifying that its makers never stopped laughing up their sleeves when they dared not guffaw outright...
Morse was wrong. His lifesize Lafayette, is monumental and poignant painting. The craggy old marquis, looking not unlike a pork-fed Fernandel, towers against a symbolic sunset sky, his fist clenched beside the busts of his dead friends Franklin and Washington...