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...time when the country is deeply worried about its wheat surplus would be a devious but possibly effective way to make friends. Trade & Commerce Minister C. D. Howe made it clear, however, that as far as Canada was concerned, the business was strictly business. Said Howe: "No quid pro quo has been asked for and none has been offered...
Then, while the controversial natural gas bill was under heated debate on the floor of the Senate, South Dakota Senator Francis Case revealed that an oil company's agent had contributed $2,500 to his campaign fund in the hope that Case would respond with quid...
...conditional upon how a government is ruled or what wars it has started. It is, therefore, only a matter of time before Red China makes the grade. When it does, our delegation will be lucky to get Japan admitted also. The U.S. must try for some quid pro quo: maintaining the Chinese Nationalists as the government of Formosa or insuring that Outer Mongolia remains outer. Mr. Dulles' main consolation, as he faces the task of breaking the news to the American people, is that next year's membership struggle on the East River will come only a month after...
...psychiatric clinic, the "chief head-candler" assures the congressman that John Henry's Rorschach test is "interesting, but not alarming." The congressman then points out to the young scientist that there are millions to be made out of his pay dirt. But John Henry is interested in no quid pro quo, prefers to be "an amicus humani generis-a friend of the human race," and wants to give Taurum to the world to conquer hunger...
...Cupido ct Caedesl Phaedra enim cui voluptas effrenata maximum habet imperium, noverca nec innocens nec Fato percussa, mala ex libidine constituit suum privignum Hippolytum stuprare. Qui tamen, documentum nobis omnibus gravissimum, ex nimis pura castitate tantum silvas canesque amat, et feminas omnes--pro pudor--detestatur horret fugit execratur. Quid plura? Ne argumentum explicem, vos (et Phaedram Hippolytumque) manbet snaguis et cruor et exitium...