Word: dakota
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Behind Closed Doors. Some of the personality clues are teasers. Any Capitol reporter knows that North Dakota's Senator William Langer chews cigars in their cellophane wrappers, but who is meant by the honorable gentleman who has love affairs all over Washington? The Indian Ambassador, Khrishna Khaleel, is obviously a scathing caricature of India's Khrishna Menon, but who are the models for 1) the liberal Supreme Court judge who cannot stay out of politics; 2) the tireless adviser to everybody; 3) the meddlesome cardinal...
...what to do but always come out in a circle," said Iowa Farmer John Hilbert to Pollster Samuel Lubell. Farmer Hilbert's gloomy, no-way-out tone was typical of what seasoned Listener Lubell found on a seven-week trip through farm country in Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, North Dakota and Wisconsin. Lubell's basic finding: the Midwest's farmers, who once had firm opinions about federal price-support programs, are now as baffled by the massive, $7 billion-a-year farm-glut scandal as the experts, the Eisenhower Administration and Congress (TIME, March 2). "Not a single...
Smoothly troweled and thoroughly entertaining, North by Northwest wears its implausibilities lightly, bobs swiftly past colored picture postcard backgrounds from Madison Avenue to South Dakota's Mount Rushmore, the U.N. Secretariat to George Washington's wattles. As the story begins. Adman Gary Grant has little on his mind but Trendex and his waistline (he reminds himself to "think thin") until enemy agents mistake him for a U.S. counterspy and kidnap him from a cocktail lounge in the Hotel Plaza. Spy Ringleader James Mason (as polished and heavy as a Kremlin banister) invites Grant to spill all he knows...
...more than 50 million doses-10% ahead of last year. But last week, with the belated demand for shots running ahead of estimates, North Carolina was out of vaccine. Rated as distressed areas qualifying for priority on new shipments: Iowa, Kansas. Missouri, Alabama, Texas, Arkansas, South Dakota and Oklahoma. Emergency redistribution of supplies is difficult because anybody who has enough vaccine is afraid...
...crop. ¶ The Senate overrode a favorite project of Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bill Fulbright (and the State Department): putting the Foreign Aid Development Loan Fund on a five-year basis by the device of borrowing $1 billion annually from the Treasury. In mid-debate. South Dakota Republican Francis Case casually made a point of order: Wasn't this provision circumventing the Appropriations Committee, which should approve all such spending schemes? Republican Leader Ev Dirksen deftly used Case's objection to block the measure. Finally Dirksen reached a compromise with Majority Leader Johnson, and a substitute amendment...