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...floor of the House they spent most of last week moping through an old argument over the OIC bill for the spread of U.S. culture and ideals (TIME, April 14). On the floor, Senators spent their time in tedious debate over the Bulwinkle-Reed bill, which would exempt railroads from antitrust regulations. That is, the Senators who were there did. Attendance was seldom above 15; one day, the only audience Alabama's John Sparkman had was Maine's tired old Wallace White...
Between rounds of the fight, Congress: ¶Sent to the White House a bill to exempt from federal taxation the $8.5 million Rockefeller gift...
...unmindful of the weakness of U.N.: "The excessive use of the veto . . . can reduce the whole system to a mockery." He posed as a test of international good faith this proposition: let "all the Great Powers voluntarily join in a new procedural interpretation of the Charter, to exempt all phases of pacific settlements from [this] stultifying checkmate...
...intellectual) has never heard of Lie. In Paris, an unusually well-informed headwaiter exclaimed: "Ah out, isn't he that Swede who presides over U.N., makes $20,000 a year and pays no income tax? Quel veinard (what a lucky guy), I'd like to be tax-exempt myself...
...result of the Nűrnberg trial has been a well-deserved fate for a group of evil men . . . yet the force of the condemnation is not unaffected by the fact that the nations sitting in judgment have so clearly proclaimed themselves exempt from the law which they have administered." Said the Manchester Guardian Weekly: "Behind [the Nűrnberg case] lie the outraged feelings of whole peoples whose memories carry a far heavier load than ours. . . . If they demand a brutal penalty which is yet hopelessly inadequate we may not gainsay them. . . . [But] there are many features of this...