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...short of breath, he must speak in spurts. Time and again Kilty will seem to end a sentence, make to move, and then turn back as though to add an afterthought. This is Falstaff exactly, one who loves to spout a comment and then vary it, amend it, augment it, or top it -- and one who, as Milton said of Belial, "could make the worse appear/The better reason, to perplex and dash/Maturest counsels...
...Multer Bill did not pass. Instead, the House voted to amend the Multer bill by adoption of the Sisk substitute, and once more a Senate-passed Administration home rule bill was removed from consideration on the House floor...
...distaff device first occurred to Wallace (TIME, March 4) after he had failed in a strong-arm attempt to amend Alabama's constitutional provision barring him from a second consecutive four-year term. Instead, he decided to resort to the "technicality" of running his wife for Governor in the Democratic primary. A pleasant, ingenuous mother of four, she had married George in 1943 when she was a 16-year-old dime-store clerk and he was a 23-year-old law-school graduate driving a dump truck. Until Wallace made her a candidate, Lurleen had been a bashful Statehouse...
Cool Chiding. Even so, the revised note charged that De Gaulle had acted illegally in breaking his military treaty commitments to NATO, and that he was wrong in saying the NATO structure would be impossible to amend. Moreover, said the U.S., if French troops are withdrawn from NATO command on July 1 as planned, they will lose access to the U.S.-owned nuclear warheads in West Germany, which France now shares under the "two-key" system. The U.S. insisted not only that it will need at least two years to remove its troops but that NATO will need an equal...
...Rome played around with this and the Roman Empire fell. Unless we resist this, the United States is going down." So argued Representative Lawrence P. Smith last August in opposition to a bill to amend the 19th century law prohibiting birth control in Massachusetts. The Representative's keen historical insight apparently had its impact, for the amendment was defeated by a vote...