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...praise and even to envy his neutralist counterpart in Europe, for if he himself had walked the tightrope of peaceful coexistence without accident thus far. Tito was doing it with a careless bravura that far outstripped him. Even observers from the warring camps below had been forced to gasp once or twice during the last few weeks as the Yugoslav seemed dangerously near to falling from his wire on one side or the other. But the very day that Khrushchev and Bulganin arrived in Belgrade, a U.S. Senate committee approved a $40.5 million grant to Tito. That was breathless balancing...
...afraid of the past. He drew from an extreme variety of sources, thereby established a broad and solid base for his own experiments.* Manet's reworkings of Hals, Goya and Giorgione, among others, led Oswald (The Decline of the West) Spengler to regard his work as the last gasp of great Western painting, yet his experiments caused Andre (The Voices of Silence) Malraux to call him the first modern artist. Perhaps he was both; certainly his Lunch on the Grass (opposite) stands as a kind of pylon in painting history...
Even the old March 15 jokes failed to carry over to the new deadline of April 15. Back in the 1930s, when Actress Carole Lombard, following the lead of a Supreme Court justice, said that she liked to pay taxes, there was an almost audible national gasp. But familiarity breeds consent. It has become more and more unfashionable to criticize the income-tax level. A psychology professor, Richard J. Dowling of Holy Cross College, has gone farther than Miss Lombard or Justice Holmes; they had merely expressed a personal pleasure in paying taxes. Dowling raised it to a maturity rite...
...Last Gasp. Old Noah Mason bounced down the aisle to the lectern. He began by saying he had not intended to speak at all - the House roared with laughter...
House he would not use the entire ten minutes that had been allotted him. The House applauded. Bailey uttered a last-gasp snarl: "I don't see how the President can really be very much concerned about it. The ticker just carried the word that he is going out to Burning Tree to play golf." Finally, the House voted on Dan Reed's motion to recommit. When the roll had been called, it seemed that the protectionists had won, 201 to 200. But Joe Martin, Indiana's Charles Halleck, and Les Arends had too many outstanding political...