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Some of the surplus will be donated to the federal school lunch program. The armed forces will be urged to buy some too. But these outlets will make only a tiny dent in the mountain of Government butter. Benson would like to see a vigorous campaign to get the public to drink more milk-before it becomes butter. But with the carefully protected high price of milk, such a program would be foredoomed too, unless the Government could somehow make milk cheaper by reducing the middleman's profits. And right there Secretary Benson would run afoul of private enterprise...
Each copper sheet takes years to shape, with expert, glancing blows just hard enough to dent but not puncture the thin metal. The critics were impressed with his work from the start, but shows were scarce, and Baizerman scrabbled a living as a part-time teacher and mechanic, somehow managed to save enough to buy copper for his work...
...whipped California's Julie Sampson, 6-3, 6-2, for the Australian singles title, then teamed up with her defeated opponent to win the doubles. Mixed doubles winners, the U.S.'s Sampson and Australia's Rex Hartwig, an oldster of 20 who finally managed to dent the 18-year-olds' monopoly...
...stimulating man. Now that I am on the other side of the academic fence, I realize that we must have been a rather insolent bunch of students and have pained our teachers--although at the time it never occurred to any of us that we could make a dent on them. It is perhaps one of the disadvantages of the great improvement in college teaching, that students can no longer at the better universities take the curriculum quite so casually and look elsewhere for their enterprise and intellectual adventure...
...down to an array of pizza at the Hotel Excelsior. After the evidence was finally tucked away and evaluated, Carney gave his decision to Italian radio listeners: "I am a partisan of the Neapolitan pizza . . . but this discrepancy of point of view with Ike will not put any dent into the Atlantic defense line of Southern Europe...