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...declined to fight Vinson openly. Instead, two of the subcommittee's ablest Republican members, Michigan's Gerald R. Ford and Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, threw themselves into the overt fight against Vinson. They enlisted the support of Republican Floor Leader Charles Halleck-who had never quite forgiven Vinson for helping round up Southern votes to liberalize the conservative House Rules Committee...
...Soprano Schwarzkopf's case, the language might also have served as a reminder of her early career as a leader of a Nazi studentbund and a wartime favorite of Nazi audiences. But if she had qualms about her Parisian reception, they were dispelled. Untranslated and long since forgiven for her past, she scored one of her handsomest triumphs...
...unique feature of the program is that the loans are "forgiven" at the rate of $1,000 per year if the recipient enters the field of teaching at the university level upon receiving his doctorate. In other words, a student who receives a $5,000 grant and then teaches for five years will have paid back the University and, in effect, received a $5,000 gift...
...past," argues John Toland, "must not be forgotten, or even forgiven-only understood." The unforgettable, in his chronicle of the Pacific war's first six months, is the unforgivable: the lunatic optimism of a U.S. totally unprepared for war. What is hard to understand today is how the nation survived that first half year of disaster and defeat...
...John Tower and Congressman Bruce Alger, on the telephone-after both had agreed to address the gathering on the phone-McGehee angrily took the stage and shouted: "They have signed their death notes as politicians in the U.S." Several minutes later. Alger came to the phone and all was forgiven. A McGehee aide had simply dialed a wrong number...