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...addition, the handout suggested that President Pusey appoint a committee to study the abolition of NROTC at Harvard, since the Navy's program "contains by virtue of its very purpose a substantial amount of propaganda and is these fore a threat to the University's high standards of objective scholarship...
...Since 1955 Sihanouk has extracted $290 million in aid from the U.S., $22 million from France, $23 million from Red China, and perhaps $12 million from Russia. To keep himself from being compromised, Sihanouk, after each Western gift, generally scampers off to Peking or Moscow for an offsetting Red handout. Last week, in a dazzling display of diplomatic virtuosity, Sihanouk unveiled a second rule of aidmanship: always bite the hand that feeds...
Like the militia at Lexington, the straggling but powerful forces of the nation's industrial states rallied in the House last week to shoot down a proposal for a still bigger farm-subsidy handout. There were some who thought that the shot would ring through the next session of Congress, might well signal the beginning of the end for the whole ramshackle $7 billion-a-year farm-subsidy program. The battle began because Midwestern farm Democrats had boldly determined to play election-year politics with wheat. In a straight party-line vote, they engineered the defeat...
...been negotiating to build missile bases in France. Italy and Pakistan. "I haven't been hiding from anyone," said Hal Hayes. "Everybody is going to get paid. As of tonight, we've written $40 million worth of checks." At one point Hayes stopped reading his press handout to blurt to reporters, "Boy, I sure didn't write this myself." Then he went off to a Hollywood nightclub. Later, he was heard muttering, "I'm ruined, a ruined man"-and collapsed from what his secretary described as exhaustion and intoxication...
Heaven help us if we in the ministry expect to find, among our "unique and abundant" satisfactions, the rare privilege of obtaining free professional services. As long as the minister and his wife expect and receive this sort of handout from the community around them, they will continue to be regarded as some sort of unique creatures, living abnormal and insulated lives. And what man living a normal life, with all its joy and pain, will listen with expectancy when an abnormal man tries to preach...