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Healy said that more major walkouts in the near future would almost certainly cause Congress to enact tough new anti-strike legislation...
...bill to give greater investment credit to industry wound up costing $1 billion more than expected because Congress failed to pass revenue measures to offset it. The revision of depreciation allowances is now reckoned to cost the Treasury another $1 billion in 1962-63. Congress also failed to enact the higher postal rates on which the Administration counted to garner about $500 million in revenue, and its repudiation of the farm program meant bigger Government outlays for supports than anticipated. Result: while the Government will spend $93.7 billion, its receipts are estimated at only $85.9 billion...
...melon. There was no one left inside to be taken by surprise . . ."A man is stationed at a prison: "For the first time in his life he had others at his mercy. Any man who has ever been a prisoner longs to be a guard. Children like to re-enact the crucifixion. Rejected lovers dream of murder. The tortured are fascinated by the rack. In their sleep the humbled pull down whole towns...
...said of Kennedy or Lodge. Voting for, and hence electing either of them will make not the smallest difference to the country. A large vote for Hughes might. To vote for Hughes is to protest a decrepit, uncaring political system in Massachusetts and to encourage the Kennedy Administration to enact more liberal legislation. In a Senate race of such breathtaking mediocrity, it seems the only reasonable vote...
...abdication was the destruction of the second republic. The military coup of May 16, 1960 did not mark the end of Korean democracy, the real end of Korean democratic government was the day that the mob had been allowed to invade the national assembly and had forced it to enact retroactive laws...