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Whirl & Wheedle. Before that, some Northern Democrats, suspecting Johnson of losing interest in liberal legislation, had begun to fume. He seemed overattentive, they thought, to procedural efficiency, party unity, the friendship of fellow Southerners and the ambitions of Lyndon Johnson. When the Democrat-controlled Senate Banking and Currency Committee threw out the Eisenhower Administration's plan to build 35,000 public-housing units a year for two years and substituted a high-spending four-year program of roughly 100,000 units a year, the question arose: Would Leader Johnson perform his nimble best to get it through the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Finger Dexterity | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...Indianapolis, Bill Vukovich, at the wheel of a Fuel Injection Special, won the 38th annual 500-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway race. Grinding for more than 3½ hours around the fume-fouled track, Vukovich maintained an average speed of 130.84 m.p.h., fastest time in speedway history. His nearest competitor: Jimmy Bryan, driving a Dean Van Lines Special, who finished one lap behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jun. 7, 1954 | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...shocked to see Senator McCarthy's face on the cover of the March 8 issue. This man is not news! . . . Let this blatherskite of an Irishman sputter and fume himself into oblivion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...Athletics Committee has major problems, but they are problems with ready solutions. By studying this year's ticket abuses to improve the distribution system rather than to fume indignantly, the Committee can benefit from this season's unfortunate disclosures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theory and Practice | 11/28/1953 | See Source »

...philosophical books (The Message of the Lord's Prayer, The Invisible Encounter). Tractors of any type fascinate him and he currently has three ("they are like pets"). But one hobby takes him far from home. He is wild about volcanoes and will fly thousands of miles to watch one fume and throw lava into the air. When Mexico's famed Paricutin was erupting, Sikorsky traveled twice to the craterside to admire the effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Uncle Igor & the Chinese Top | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

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