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...this spirit, the House of Representatives voted to cut off appropriations for the buildings. Across the Capitol, Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart was waiting in the same mood. After a talk with Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott, Capehart boomed: "He told me nothing was settled-no designs agreed upon. I told him the building should have lots of masonry work. I was fearful it would be made out of steel, aluminum and glass. I come from Indiana, and we have a lot of limestone there. Indiana Limestone Company produces...
...Merchants with three runs. The fans returned to the stands and McCulloch went back to the mound. Respectfully, the Merchants stood far back from the plate. But Frank's sizzler began to work. He went on to strike out 19 batters and even walloped a seventh-inning homer, but the damage was done-Verdi lost...
STEEL DEMAND will hit about 190 million tons annually within 15 years, some 50% more than current U.S. capacity, predicts Bethlehem Steel's President Arthur B. Homer...
...forefinger, the airman's signal to rev up, means speed on the Senate floor. A whisper from Lyndon during roll call, and the clerk shifts into a slow, minor key. Sometimes it takes an expert to tell whether the Senate is rushing or loitering. But even Indiana Republican Homer Capehart, no expert, spotted Johnson's delay last week during the wait for Humphrey, and gruffly declared that it bothered...
...Homer's concern was forgivable: he had predicted an eight-vote triumph for his amendment to restore the Administration's 35,000-unit program, and had laughed, "Lyndon, this time I'm going to rub your nose in it." Now Lyndon was busily wheedling more votes, and gaining time to do it in the name of senatorial courtesy, i.e., fairness to Humphrey...