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...scraggy black cows that had been stolen from a Jordanian Arab last February, taken into Israel and sold. The thief had been arrested by the Jordan police. After a complaint transmitted to Israel by the U.N. Mixed Armistice Commission, Israeli police found the stolen cows in a local barn and promptly arrested two Israeli Arabs for receiving stolen property. To give them a fair trial, the property had first to be identified...
...began in January when George Magoffin Humphrey, as one of his top aides said later, "tossed a match into the barn and sure started a fire." Treasury Secretary Humphrey's warning that high Government spending would in the long run bring on a depression "that will curl your hair" caused hair to stand on end all over the U.S. Editorial writers cried of "idiot spending," and budget figures rolled sonorously across Chamber of Commerce luncheon tables from coast to coast. Congressional mail pouches swelled; New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives totted up 2,155 budget-cutting letters...
...last week the fire in the barn had even singed the man who threw the match. To the chairman of a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee came a letter urging the Senate to restore $8,205,000 (to replace overage Coast Guard aircraft) that the House of Representatives had whittled from the Treasury Department's budget. The pleader: Treasury Secretary Humphrey himself...
...American Ballet Theater is floating very effectively across the stage of the monstrous barn across the river. For once miserable acoustics don't matter much. At the Opera House...
...sinister service of the MVD, after apprenticeship in the Red Youth Organization, as happily and naturally as ambitious U.S. youngsters would take a job with General Motors. Each had early experiences of hardship that evoke the lower depths of Gorky. (Evdokia was hung by her heels in a barn and whipped by a grandfather because she had picked a cucumber; Vladimir went hungry because the family horse he tried to sell to the White army was too poor.) But they worked their dutiful way up as career Communists, and for these ex-peasants, the new life was rich...