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Missouri's O. K. Armstrong put his finger on the big flaw in Truman's case against the press. Said Armstrong: "If we should take the whole amount of the 60% increase on the second-class group, it would only be $24 million. Stack that up against the total deficit of $550 million."* The House ended up with a bill calling for a 30% increase in second-class rates (spread over three years) on both newspapers and magazines, must now confer with the Senate. Most newspapermen and magazine men agreed that this increase was fair enough...
During most of his stay at Cannes, Farouk appeared regularly at the casino at 10 p.m. Seating himself at the "tout va" (no limit) table, his hairy chest showing through the opened neck of his shirt, he would snap his fingers, and an attendant would place a stack of chips in front of His Majesty. He tossed in the square white discs, worth a million francs ($2,850) each, as though they were marbles, and when he won, he shouted "Je vous ai eu! [Got you!]," roaring with laughter. When he lost, he laughed too. Croupiers, whom he often left...
...took a stack of books along on their honeymoon, made her read Sinclair Lewis, Dreiser, Dostoevski. She took a U.C.L.A. correspondence course in economics and English literature, tackled War and Peace, The Magic Mountain ("I thought I'd never finish that damn book") and Das Kapital ("Ever since then," says a friend, "she has been spelling capital with...
...another German had chloroformed his conscience. In twelve hours, one of Major Kartuschke's prisoners-21-year-old Lance Corporal Fedor Baranowski-would be shot by a firing squad. Curiosity and compassion impelled the chaplain to find out why. Through a long, anguished night, he wrestled with a stack of court-martial papers...
Justifications submitted by the military, for instance, made a stack of papers which "would extend, I should judge, some 24 inches upward from the table." Nor did the committee get much help from the White House or the Pentagon. "Budget estimates were not received from the President until the last day of April [the law says that they should be submitted to Congress in the first 15 days of its session...