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Lumpy Roads. A bill can bypass the Rules Committee by coming to the floor under "suspension of the rules," which permits only 40 minutes of debate and no amendments. But an important item of legislation has little prospect of getting by in this way, because suspension of the rules requires a two-thirds majority. Three times since Judge Smith became Rules Committee chairman in 1955, Sam Rayburn has tried to get a blocked bill past the Rules Committee through suspension of the rules, and all three times he failed...
...closer to truth than hyperbole. For the first time in history, a major missile was all but operational on its initial flight test. The Air Force was so pleased with results of a series of tethered propulsion tests at Edwards Air Force Base that it decided last year to bypass the normal flight tests of components. The first Minuteman fired all three stages, put its brand new inertial guidance system, its nose cone and its flaring steering nozzles through the wringer in one bold gamble.* The stunning bull's-eye meant that the test program would...
...Gurion, Lavon's conduct in 1961 was far more dangerous than whatever he had or had not done in 1954. At stake was Ben-Gurion's plan to bypass aging party chieftains such as Lavon and hand over power one day to Mapai's bright young men, headed by Moshe Dayan, 45, the one-eyed general who was army chief in 1954 and is now Minister of Agriculture and Ben-Gurion's chosen political heir. By suddenly resigning, Ben-Gurion in effect forced the party to choose between himself and Lavon...
Digitronics' electronic Berlitz can translate teletype and magnetic tape and punched cards into a common language, or even bypass punched cards entirely by taking information direct from the teletype to computers. First purchaser: Alcoa's Wear-Ever subsidiary. Wear-Ever will use the machine (price: $79,000) to take orders for pots and pans, at the rate of 3.000 words per minute, from the central-office computer, where the orders are assembled, and relay them by teletype to warehouses for shipping. The converter will also feed orders coming in by teletype from sales offices to the computer for billing. Wear...
...James Barco, passing over the fact that Castro had just grabbed another 164 U.S. firms, worth approximately $250 million, hastened to set him straight. "The U.S. has no plans or intentions to attack Cuba. Cuba need have no fear." The U.S. even took the unusual step of voting to bypass the OAS and discuss the Cuban charges of aggression in the U.N. itself...