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House High Jinks. Emerging from cob-nosed Clarence Cannon's Appropriations Committee, the resolution touched off a long, loud partisan debate with many a tongue in cheek and many a wink. It is only "common courtesy," said Mississippi's Jamie Whitten, to invite the Administration to indicate where to cut its own budget. Complained Tennessee Democrat Ross Bass: "We are faced with this unusual situation because it is the first time in the history of our nation that a President has submitted a budget for the opera tion of the Government; yet neither he nor his Secretary...
Stakes in Cairo. Last week, on the tenth anniversary of the formal opening of the bank, President Black was in the midst of a 15,000-mile jaunt to Europe and the Middle East. In London he touched economic bases with Governor of the Bank of England Cameron F. Cob-bold, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick; in Paris, he chatted with Old Friend Pierre MendesFrance, lunched at the home of Bank of France Governor Wilfred Baumgartner. Flying on to Iran, Banker Black talked about accelerating Iran's seven-year...
...reply: "What could we do? There was a reign of terror." No mention was made, either, of the fact that, at Stalin's order, the elephantine Khrushchev had once performed the gopak, a fast Ukrainian dance. Nor did the transcript record such homely touches as the cob-nosed Nikita in tears as he told of children being tortured, and the fact that 30 delegates had fainted and had to be lugged out of the hall...
...Americans caused a near riot them selves on their second night in town when they staged Russia's first jam session at the staid Astoria Hotel. As one member of the cast put it: "The band was doing up Cherokee. It was strictly from the cob. Man, it was square! Lorenzo Fuller [an alternate Sportin' Life] decided to go scalp the piano. Ned Wright [Robbins] felt the spirit striving and took everybody to the sunny side of the street . . . One of the Russian cats got the spirit and did a buck and wing routine that flipped everybody...
...Intelligentsia of New York. It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theatres, etc., that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands." ¶"I have just finished Faulkner's Sanctuary, and I think I have understood all the pornographic part, corn cob, etc ... I found myself also absorbed in the story as a whole, without exactly following the thread of it, which it would have taken me a second reading to disentangle . . . Like all these recent writers, the author is too lazy and self-indulgent, and throws off what comes...