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...country's cackle about being short of spare cash: his Cabinet hastily announced "complete agreement" to launch West Germany's first real foreign-aid program in 1961. Under the projected billion-dollar program, Germany will at last make available to the capital-hungry underdeveloped nations a significant hunk of the record $7.4 billion gold and hard-currency reserves accumulated during the spectacular German economic comeback...
...Hunk of Iron." It was largely Nixon's unmistakable Republicanness that led Republican chieftains at the Chicago convention in 1952 to pick him from Dwight Eisenhower's short list of acceptable vice-presidential prospects. The new President was reared in the military gospel that a second in command should always be trained to take over in case of accident, accordingly decided at the start that his Vice President would sit in the councils of the Administration, learn its secrets, share in its decisions, and so be prepared to take over if the President died in office. Ike laid...
...devotion to foreign aid over the years is partly traceable to Nixon's influence. In October 1957, Nixon was the first member of the Administration to say publicly that the Soviet Sputnik, which the admiral in charge of U.S. Navy satellite research had dismissed as a "hunk of iron," represented a serious challenge...
...newspaper people are a bunch of sons of bitches. The old man is fed up with you." Then she grabbed Irma (95 Ibs.) by the hair, kicked and punched her senseless. When Irma regained consciousness, she had the makings of a shiner, sundry cuts and bruises, and a large hunk of hair missing from her scalp...
...there is an undercurrent of racism in reverse . . ." In the midst of a rising demand that he suspend Jack and start permanent removal proceedings, Governor Nelson Rockefeller decided to wait until after Hulan Jack has his day in the Appellate Court on April 14. Until then, the most valuable hunk of real estate in the world will remain under the presidency of a man who, in the words of the New York Times, has demonstrat ed a strange "insensitivity to public opinion and the proprieties...