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...Signed 30 bills, including the $34.6 billion defense appropriation and an $863 million public-works bill, but not without a rap on congressional knuckles for having included in the public-works bill unbudgeted regional projects that he felt would have a "serious effect ... on the future financial commitments of the Federal Government...
...shivs amid the crowds of shoppers in Soho's Frith Street−an event which indicated that, at the very least, things were not all quiet in the rackets. Because of the obliging perjury of a petty con man posing as an Anglican parson, both men beat the rap. But soon afterward Jack Spot was set upon once more and slashed in the face and hands; it took 60 stitches to put him together again...
...probation and had also taken away the Huskies' Rose Bowl receipts during the punishment period. Ever since, athletes and alumni all over the conference had been breaking out in a rash of righteous confessions. Only U.C.L.A.'s handsome halfback, Ronnie Knox, seemed certain to beat the rap. After ordering Ronnie to quit California for U.C.L.A. two years ago, stepfather Harvey Knox had blown the whistle on Cal's illegal recruiting tricks. And he had been too shrewd to get Ronnie involved in similar shenanigans at U.C.L.A. "We get only the 75 skins [a month] the P.C.C. allows...
...assorted scientists (see above] in the Ocean Hall of Atlantic City's Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel began to feel uncomfortably crowded, and the chairman had to rap for order as newcomers jostled for standing room. Clearly, they had not come to hear the speaker's closing remarks on "Protein Composition of Rat Uterine Luminal Fluid," but to be on hand for the American Physiological Society's next and daring paper: "Physiological Responses During Coitus in the Human...
...Jacques Mario Jean Petrovich goes into a dither over Mrs. Adams' "firm ample tummy [which] was shaped like the underside of a round 15-inch skillet." The pair are about to start cooking with gas when Blade starts playing Bogart with Jacques's face ("Slap, r-r-rap...