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...which you state that Norman Douglas was asked to leave Capri by the police. You casually defame the memory of a great man, who not only was never asked to leave the island but was appointed an honorary citizen. He was buried on Capri with full civic honors...
Situation Adjustment. In Compton, Calif., when burglars held up Liquor Store Owner Max Stanman, and invited the half a dozen customers in the store to help themselves, customers and crooks alike marched out with arms full...
...Gaulle, several steps to the rear, waited for long moments as the drums rolled and taps broke the evening quiet. Half an hour later, at a surging greeting at the Hotel-de-Ville in the name of the people of Paris, the President responded: "When the heart is full, the tongue is very likely to stumble. I have one small French phrase that, I think, expresses my feelings-Je vous aime tons...
...high noon on voting day, Halleck went on the House floor pretty sure that he was licked, but still full of fight. He watched closely as Minnesota's Walter Judd tallied each vote. As the clerk started back through the list to check those who had not answered the first call, Halleck's breaks came with a rush. Two of his Ike-backing votes, landed by overdue planes, walked into the House. The three-man G.O.P. delegation from Kansas swung over to Ike. Another Congressman muttered, "I'm not chicken," swung too. When the roll call ended...
...against free-handed spending last week withstood the nearly irresistible force of pork-barrel politics. Whipped. The clash: an all-out drive by House Speaker Sam Rayburn and his big Democratic majority to override the President's veto of the public-works appropriation bill, a $1.2 billion barrel full of rivers-and-harbors projects and other fat goodies dear to politicians of both parties. Rayburn whipped all but six Democrats into a rare moment of unity, but failed by one vote to override. Two days later, still seething over the defeat of their House colleagues, Senate Democrats sharply attacked...