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...studies legislation diligently, is ever alert to what others dismiss as unimportant. "Mr. Speaker," Gross cries when a colleague seeks unanimous consent to pass a minor appropriations bill without debate, "reserving the right to object, can the gentleman tell us just what this is all about?" If Gross doesn't like the explanation-as in the case of a bill for a historic memorial in Texas in which the $115,000 appropriation did not even cover the cost of the land-Gross declares loudly: No! With nonpartisan passion, Gross crusades against spending. When Kennedy was inaugurated, Gross protested that...
...Immigration Appeals in the Justice Department. Then he retired altogether, emerging only occasionally into the spotlight. He appeared on TV's $64,000 Question, missed a question, won a consolation prize of a Cadillac, which he promptly sold. Hollywood gave him a bit part in Advise and Consent as "Senator McCafferty," who dozes through most of the picture except for intermittent mouthing of flowery rhetoric. When he had nothing else to do, Ashurst spent hours chatting with elderly ladies in the lobby of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, where he lived. Always courtly and sprightly, he would sweep...
...letter to the London Times. "In the same list," said the strongly antileftist Russian émigré who left his homeland in 1919, "I find several writers whom I respect but also some others-such as Ilya Ehrenburg, Bertrand Russell and J.P. Sartre-with whom I would not consent to participate in any festival or conference whatsoever." Besides, said he, "I do not believe in abstract discussions on the novel...
...Hughes Problem. Even if the merger should win the consent of the White House-which by law has final say on U.S. airline operations abroad-there would remain what TWA President Charles Tillinghast glumly calls "the Hughes problem." Unpredictable Financier Howard Hughes, who apparently has his heart set on merging TWA with faltering Northeast Airlines, remains TWA's majority stockholder with 78.2% of its outstanding shares. Even though his TWA stock is currently being voted by trustees unsympathetic to his dreams, Hughes might find legal means of delaying indefinitely a merger with...
...Council gave unanimous consent to a resolution by Councillor Walter J. Sullivan which requests the City Manager to arrange for Harvard and M.I.T. to pay taxes or an amount in lieu of taxes on married student apartment buildings "of at least fifty per cent of the assessed value of the property...