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...party will appear; then 2) bump all Republican bets with a whopping Democratic tax slash aimed mostly at relief for middle-and lower-income workers, i.e., most U.S. voters. Meanwhile, the Democratic Express could roar down the tracks with a highballing series of antirecession spending bills-and Republicans could grab onto the caboose as best they could. Items: ¶ The Senate shouted through a Lyndon Johnson resolution calling upon the Administration to speed public-works spending on previously authorized projects. The vote: 93 (including 46 Republicans) to 1 (New Hampshire Republican Norris Cotton). Actually, the Administration's public-works...
...week in Sicily, which encourages private enterprise (TIME, Dec. 9), Mattei got his comeuppance from private enterprisers. They had gathered to discuss the thriving new oil industry on the island, which had been started after Gulf brought in the first well. Mattei appeared at the meeting to try to grab some credit for what had happened. For an hour he decried private initiative, said that only his "army of technicians." which are "perhaps the best in the world." can properly serve the interests of Italians and Sicilians...
...National Basketball Association, against Bill Russell (6 ft. 10 in.) of the Boston Celtics, the league's finest defender. Twice Pettit leaped for his jump shot. Twice Russell knocked the ball away. Pettit had a broken left hand protected by a heavy cast, but he managed to grab both rebounds. On his third try Pettit twisted and faked, swept clear for a split second and whished the ball home...
...grappled with a bevy of Tuaregs in a mock brawl staged for his cameras, Thomas intoned between chuckles: "The bad guys. Versus the good guys . . . Make it look good, Achmed! My grandmother's watching on TV." All this and Timbuktu appeared in Thomas' latest color adventure, a grab bag of odds and ends on African superstitions. The oddest was a weirdly effective sequence showing how the Hova of Madagascar dig up their dead each year, roll them in shiny new wrappings and carry them about in a gay shuffle dance before returning them to their graves-a ritual...
...spout figures at a torrential rate to confuse the buyer, and to never put a deal in writing. If a customer took out his own piece of paper and pencil to note figures, the salesman was instructed to take out his pencil, break off the point, then impatiently grab the customer's pencil...