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The Enemy Below. A DE (Robert Mitchum) and a U-boat (Curt Jiirgens) tangle in a running fracas that is sharply directed by Dick Powell (TIME, Jan. 13).
The Enemy Below. A DE (Robert Mitchum) and a U-boat (Curt Jürgens) tangle in a running fracas that is sharply directed by Dick Powell (TIME, Jan. 13).
The result of the whole fracas was that not even Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's priority order was enough to get Fulbright's bill out of committee without a humiliating compromise. By an 8-to-5 vote, the committee rammed down Fulbright's throat a resolution making...
Commenting on the riot, the President of the Daily Dartmouth said, "It was the feeling of the Council that Dartmouth students were not wholly responsible for the affair." The Band members, he said, were guilty by consent, since they entered the fracas with instruments they knew were delicate.
Looking back on last spring's great cut-that-budget fracas, an economy-minded member of Congress might well wonder whether it was just a dream. Despite all the battle cries that rang out on Capitol Hill, despite all the warlike swings of economy axes, that same federal budget...