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...pressing his crusade into Capitol Hill, the President breakfasted (cantaloupe, scrambled eggs and bacon, kippered herring, toast, coffee) with 15 Republican Congressmen. When the small talk amid the table clatter was over, Ike got his serious business off his chest. "These," said he, "are four simple musts." The four: Defense Department reorganization ("If war should come, and I pray that it doesn't, we would have to make improvements anyway"); a strong foreign aid bill to counter Soviet economic penetration; extension of reciprocal trade ("We all want to help domestic industries, but the only way the U.S. can survive...
Whiskyfied Scholars. Two years later Smellie had written, or pasted together from such sources as Hume, Locke, Voltaire and Francis Bacon, the remaining two volumes. The 2,659-page set contained a long description of Noah's ark and a terse write-off of "Woman": "The female of man. See HOMO." It advised that tobacco could desiccate the brain to "a little black lump consisting of mere membranes." It was salted with 160 excellent engravings by Bell, including a handsome map of North America...
...first prize, two-thirds of the income from the fund, went to Anita O. Bullard '61 for an essay entitled, "William Blake and the Case against 'Bacon, Newton & Locke...
Yesterday was an all-time great. For our viewing pleasure, the Brattle served up an old but welcome Bogart-Bacall item; for our dining pleasure, Adams House served up not only bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwiches but also toasted frankfurters; and then, to crown the day with some more viewing pleasure, Steve Allen had as his guests on television Louis Armstrong, Van Cliburn and Peter Ustinov. Clearly it was one of the finest Sundays it is this reviewer's pleasure to remember...
First off, he decided that the $1.7 billion pork-barrel rivers and harbors bill did not measure up to being reasonable, even though Congress had tried to pretend that it was an important antirecession remedy. Among the 154 projects in the barrelful, 28 costing $350 million looked like fat bacon. Example: one section of the bill laid out $269,000 to be spent on the lower Potomac River near Hull Creek, Va. to build a harbor for 41 small boats and 42 skiffs. Army engineers tagged the job uneconomical; the Virginia state government, by failing to promise matching funds...