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...enough, 2) cut too much, 3) cut in the wrong places. House minority Leader Sam Rayburn went on record with a worry about the cuts in defense spending. Crusty Republican John Taber, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, growled: "I believe that a $3 billion cut would get rid of the deficit, and I hope and believe that we will be able to accomplish this without any trouble." Probably the first place the economy-minded will look is at the $5.4 billion item for foreign aid ($4.3 billion military, $1.1 billion economic-technical), which is down only $100 million from...
...inevitability ... I believe . . . that it is from the spontaneous actions and choices of ordinary people that progress . . .springs . . . that the creative achievements of the state have been vastly overrated, and that in the words of Calvin Coolidge, 'where the people are the government they do not get rid of their burdens by attempting to unload them on the government.' Men are learning by bitter experience the truth of these words. I used to cherish the hope that the study of history might save us from having to learn that...
Furry's and Kamin's performances were damaging in every important respect but one. They rid themselves of the Fifth Amendment, whose previous use had given the impression that they might be shielding themselves from prosecution for some crime. Both testified freely about themselves, but for reasons of conscience, refused to talk about others. Both were cited for contempt. In discarding their constitutional armor and gambling on a favorable decision by the courts, Furry and Kamin were at least assuming full responsibility for their moral decisions, instead of placing most of it on the Corporation. As long as they were...
There is, accordingly, the classic problem of how to get rid of a corpse; and thereafter, bites of U.N. thinking are washed down with draughts of unabashed theater. Only at the end do plot and theme rather floridly meet-when the Russian delegate, despite his Communist conditioning, shows a human spark. That human spark, deep inside even Communists, is what Delegate Cornell feels can eventually save the world...
...Bern, N.C., applying for a marriage license, Alec Ogburn gave his age-111-and that of his bride-to-be-22-and told the wide-eyed clerk: "Don't laugh at me, lady ... If I don't get along with her, I reckon I can get rid...