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Meanwhile, appearing before a House subcommittee investigating the Estes case, Roland Ballou, an Agriculture Department official, was asked if he had ever met Estes. His answer: "I have not. Thank the Lord." Ballou's fervent reply was understandable, as the hearings turned up more strange twists in the serpentine scandal. Items...
...infuriated Dwight Eisenhower, who just happened to be in Washington lunching with Republican Congressmen. He said his Administration had played no favorites in administering the stockpile program, a program which, he emphasized, "operated under laws that existed long before I got there." As for George Humphrey, Ike remained a fervent admirer. Said he: "If Secretary Humphrey ever did a dishonest thing in his life, I'm ready to mount the cross and you can put the nails and spear...
...tribal monarch, Kabaka ("Freddie") Mutesa II of Buganda. Election day brought a heavy turnout; shy Pygmies emerged from Western Uganda's forests to vote, and polling officials often found it difficult to prevent them from taking their bows and arrows into the curtained booths. Winner Obote is a fervent anti-Communist whose major task in corning months will be in London, where constitutional talks are scheduled this summer. The constitution that Obote needs must give Uganda's central government enough power to rule, yet provide a measure of autonomy for the country's proud tribal kingdoms...
Generations of Britons have made a hobby of Bradshaw, the defunct, encyclo pedic railway guide that Sherlock Holmes knew by heart. A fervent Brad shaw buff's severest censure of a fellow devotee: "He is rather weak on his Sun day locals." Nonetheless, Beeching last week was going ahead with a 1 5-year, $4.2 billion cost cutting program. "Railways," sighed a British Transport Commission official, "will never be the same again...
...trade barriers, warned that the bill would give the Administration "power to push domestic industries onto the ash heap." Spokesmen for firms that make machine tools, watches, bicycles, pianos and other products complained that tariff cuts would injure their industries. But these warnings and complaints seemed no more fervent, and perhaps less persuasive, than at hearings on reciprocal trade renewal in past years...