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...been accustomed to," says former Republican National Chairman Len Hall, who now heads Michigan Gover nor George Romney's Washington head quarters. Predicts F. Clifton White, who organized Barry Goldwater's first-ballot victory at the 1964 convention: "Nobody's going to get a hammerlock on this thing at an early date. It'll be a fight to the finish...
Naturally, such fiscal flaws are unavoidable in a democracy, in which the people's representatives are supposed to have a hammerlock hold on the people's purse strings. But C.E.D. feels that Congress could at least fund long-range projects for three to five years rather than annually, to help minimize the need for supplemental appropriations. To hold down another congressional practice-the overfunding of some favorite projects-C.E.D. recommends that the President be given "clear statutory authority" to withhold funds appropriated but "found not to be essential...
...modern history has gone astray. Mesmerized by all the new sciences of the time, 19th century historians decided that history, too, could be a science. Eloquent layman historians like Gibbon, Burke and Hume went out of fashion. Academicians took over the writing of history, and they have had a hammerlock on it ever since. With enough research and "objectivity," they were sure that history could be reduced to a number of immutable laws, that human behavior could be neatly categorized and predicted. They gave up trying to see the big picture and began grinding out monographs to which Gibbon would...
Before Kennedy's death, the two bills were being bottled up by a pair of Virginians: Judge Howard Smith, who had a hammerlock on civil rights in his House Rules Committee, and Harry Byrd, who had the tax cut cooped up in his Senate Finance Committee. Eventually, both bills almost certainly would have been pried loose from their caretakers. But it was Johnson's masterful dealing with Congress that got both bills moving swiftly and both through without casualty...
...long straightaway at 180 m.p.h., Clark set a new lap record of 131.147 m.p.h., and coasted across the finish line more than 1 min. ahead. The victory, Clark's third in 22 days, ran his season's point total to 27,* and gave him a virtual hammerlock on the 1963 Grand Prix championship. "It's a bit obvious, isn't it," said a rival driver. "Clark's a lot faster than anybody else...