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...been easier for Dulles to obtain these funds, had he not revealed that $250,000, allotted last year, has not been spent. The appropriation had been designed to pay for a new pass-port-making machine which, unfortunately, has not yet been invented. We commend the Secretary for his candor in revealing the surplus and for his vision in providing opportunities for budding inventors. As it stands now, however, the pass-ports will probably just have to be turned out the old way, so that our diplomats can have their recreation and the Suez can have its users...
...blunt about the matter, and say that I am not sure which quarter the President would postpone," Humphrey said plaintively. He read off a list of Minnesota projects, then added: "They are a part of a quarter that I do not want the President to touch." With equal candor, Neuberger admitted: "On this bill I happen to be 'stuck,' . . . God Almighty put a great deal of water [in Oregon...
...Beck's action could not save him from the disgrace of running to cover behind a personal shield when the management of his union is under grave attack. The truth is that Mr. Beck is in a predicament in which silence may be even more damaging than candor would have been...
Characteristic Candor. Early this year, unable to shake off the aftereffects of a bout with flu, Evarts Graham went for a checkup to Washington University's Barnes Hospital, where he had so long wielded the scalpel. X rays showed lung cancer, and by the harshest of ironies it was in both lungs, so that his own brilliant operation, now standard in better hospitals around the world, could not save him. Nitrogen mustard, which sometimes serves as a life-prolonging palliative in such cases, proved to be of little help; the cancer had already spread too far. Last week, just...
...saved by Graham's demonstration that a whole lung can be removed is not known. Far too many cases are not seen by doctors until it is too late to operate at all, and in many others the operation comes too late to offer much hope. With characteristic candor, Dr. Graham in the last weeks of his life was re-examining the pros and cons of his operation. One of the last visitors to Graham's bedside was Grateful Patient Gilmore. He still smokes; his cemetery lot is still vacant...