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...Economize, Balance, Reduce." The Virginian's philosophy of government was blunt and uncompromising: "Economize, balance the budget, make some substantial debt payments, and eventually reduce taxes in all the individual brackets and on business." Yet after he became chairman of the Senate Finance Committee in 1955, practically no one in Government heeded his homilies. For his part, Byrd used the powers of his position to slow down or distort legislation that he found distasteful...
...peace, the troop increases continue with no end in sight; and, most serious of all, while this country professes a desire to come to the conference table, the President tactlessly declares that the United States will never unilaterally halt the bombings of the North--thus damaging, in one brief, blunt moment the preconditions needed for negotiations...
...presumably because it had just passed through the President's neck. Also, the injury in Connally's wrist was such, said the doctor who treated him, that Exhibit 399 had apparently begun to tumble end over end when it emerged from his chest and that it crashed blunt-end first into his wrist. There was some damage on the bullet's flat...
...beaten the young wife he had met and married in December 1964, during their Peace Corps training in the U.S. The assistant medical officer at the local hospital, who had performed the autopsy on Peverley Dennett Kinsey, also testified that she had been beaten about the head by something blunt, like an iron bar. There was an eyewitness, an African farmer who had seen the girl struggling to defend herself. The farmer had summoned his neighbors, and when Kinsey came down from the hill, the Africans attacked him with clubs...
...Dockeray, a pathologist who appeared for the defense, told the court that Peverley's head wounds were so severe that a "colossal force" must have been used. In his opinion, the multiple fractures were far more consistent with a 20-ft. plunge than with blows by a blunt instrument...