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Rich in folklore, controversy and profits, the scrap industry is an unglamorous giant that has been spoofed, needled and assailed by writers from Charles Dickens to Garson (Born Yesterday) Kanin. The public insists on calling its chief product junk, but this affront has not prevented scrapmen from making millions by marketing the oddments that other people throw away. To the steelmakers they sell rust-worn barbed wire from the farms, torn-up tracks from the railbeds and used appliances tossed out by housewives. They move mountains of junked cars into grasping incinerators that burn off paint, cushions and fixtures, then...
...Affront. He supplied his own answer: Powell's great expansion of committee staff and committee travel. Ash brook said that before Powell, the staff had consisted of four Republicans and twelve Democrats. Now it had "35 or 40" Democrats and just two Republicans. At the same time, he said, the Republicans were "harassed" with "persistent demands" that they give up their minority suite. And, although the committee "would seem to have less reason to travel than most other committees," it had become "one of the most freely traveling groups in the entire Congress." About half of that travel, said...
...claim, at a recent press conference, that even such junkets as his Paris nightclubbing with two women staff members are justified, because "I will always do just what every other Congressman and committee chairman has done and is doing and will do." Said Ashbrook: "It is an affront to the dignity of the House to categorically state that we all have done or will do these things. I believe that the reputation of this august body is at stake...
...Ordered the Paris Opera to cancel a performance by Rudolf Nureyev, a Russian ballet dancer who defected to the West in 1961. Though Nureyev has already danced in Paris, London and New York, the French government plainly felt that his appearance in Paris now would be an affront to Nikita Khrushchev...
...current photographic exhibit at Adams House breaks an unofficial tradition there--the showing only of work by people connected with the University. The result, however, is well worth the affront to isolationist sentiment...