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...another Congressional action last week, Arkansas' J. William Fulbright and his Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved (10-7) Kennedy proposals to bypass annual congressional authorization for foreign aid, and to borrow $8.8 billion from the Treasury for a five-year program. The committee authorized nearly everything the President wanted in the way of funds this year; its tremendous influence on Capitol Hill likely will shove the foreign-aid bill neatly through both houses. With the big bill for foreign aid and another big vote for defense coming up, Jack Kennedy was just as glad...
...favor, and the opposition appeared to be crumbling. Representative Tom Pelly of Washington was able to muster only 83 of the House's 437 members on a petition protesting the President's plan to borrow $7.3 billion directly from the Treasury-a tactic designed to bypass the authority of the penny-pinching House Appropriations Committee. Even respected Republican Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon argued that such "backdoor spending" was an economically sound procedure, used by every President since Herbert Hoover to support some 20 federal agencies. Aid Opponent Passman felt so sure that he did not have enough votes...
...with the Pathet Lao-though just how this could be accomplished while the Pathet Lao were still periodically storming army outposts back in Laos, nobody could explain. The three princes bucked to dreamy King Savang Vatthana the thorny task of picking a coalition government, a procedure that would effectively bypass the National Assembly, where Boun Oum still commands a strong anti-Communist majority. Boun Oum agreed to disown SEATO, which guarantees Laos against outside aggression, and to establish diplomatic relations with Laos' "neighbors," meaning Red China and North Viet Nam. The princes called for new elections and the departure...
...poisons pile up in his blood for a few days. Surgeon David Dillard opened an artery and a vein in Ben's left arm and implanted a plastic tube in each. He brought the ends of the tubes out over the forearm, hooked them together to form a bypass that let the blood flow through freely, to prevent clotting. When the small skin wounds healed, physicians connected the tubes to the artificial kidney. This filtered the poisons out of Ben's blood, to give him a few days' lease on life. The beauty of the technique...
...things done, Kennedy has developed a "prodding list" of matters that he feels he must pursue, has learned, as all Presidents do, that he sometimes has to ask three times to get things done. On his telephone, the President has installed a console of pushbuttons, enabling him to bypass secretaries and instantly reach the inner offices of his top lieutenants. In the same spirit of crowflight communications, Kennedy last week abolished the Operations Coordinating Board, a buffer agency between the White House and national security agencies, and explained that he preferred "direct communications with the responsible agencies so that everyone...