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Throughout his life the Aga Khan's pastoral letters to his flocks were full of good, sound and fatherly advice. The ancient Moslem tradition of tossing a coin to the leprous beggar in the square was brought up to date by the Aga Khan in huge endowments to hospitals and schools...
...soil bank in return for a $209,701 Government payment, then turned around and plowed up a new farm to grow three times as much cotton. Cried Congressman Udall: "Here is boondoggling on a grand scale. Indeed, the word boondoggling is utterly inadequate to describe this program. We should coin a new term, boonswoggling...
...held previous legislative office (New York state), but Ives was no man to pull a technicality on an opponent of Arthur Watkins' caliber. Bricker's suggestion: Would the Senators agree to settle the matter in the classic Senate tradition in such cases, i.e., by flipping a coin...
Irving Ives promptly agreed. For Watkins the decision was tougher. As a practicing Mormon, he is opposed to gambling on principle, reluctantly accepts the Senate custom ("It isn't really gambling") for lack of a practical alternative. Moreover, out of eight previous turns at Senate coin tossing, he has lost eight times. At length, as Bricker flipped the coin experimentally, Watkins gave in. "Heads," he called as the quarter whirled in the air. It came up tails. Sighed Arthur Watkins: "My record of losing at this is still intact...
Last week the committee formally ratified the coin tossing by voting to give McCarthy's seat on Appropriations to New York's Ives. Then, without benefit of further flipping, it gave Joe's place on the Government Operations Committee to Indiana's Homer Capehart, normally an Eisenhower backer, and Joe's place on the Rules Committee to an all-out Ikeman, New Jersey's Clifford Case (who also picked up the third-ranking spot on Banking and Currency which Ives vacated in exchange for the Appropriations post). That still left the Senate with...