Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Happily, on the opening day of the session the House passed a package of such changes in its rules by a 224-201 vote. The most important item in the package is the 21 day rule, which will allow the Speaker to call up bills for floor action after three weeks in the Rules Committee. In addition, Rules will lose much of its power to keep a bill already passed out of a House-Senate conference. Another change will prevent unnecessary delays of roll-call votes. Liberals also scored a victory by increasing Democratic margins on the House Appropriations...
Principal item on the agenda was a state-of-the-union message of Premier Chou En-lai that required two days to deliver. Conceding that "several years ago" there had been "serious difficulties," Chou declared that the "entire economy has taken a turn for the better," though he lamented that "our relations with the Soviet Union have been impaired...
...item in Walter Winchell's column one day last June sounded genuinely solicitous. "Sugar Ray Robinson and gambler-shylocks are at war," it read. "Buddies rushed out of Harlem bars and saved him from planned mayhem. This man may be slain, Mr. Police Commissioner . . ." But for at least one Winchell reader the solicitude was less than welcome. Last week onetime World Welterweight and Middleweight Champion Robinson, now a slow-motion 44, sued Columnist Winchell and his employers, Hearst Consolidated Publications...
Sugar Ray claimed the large round sum on the ground that Winchell's pufflicity implied "intimate dealings with gamblers, that plaintiff had been engaged in gambling orgies and that he was heavily indebted to various gamblers, shady characters and persons of ill repute." The item, he said, had caused him "great pain and mental anguish," and had held him up "to contempt and reproach...
...Hitler's last chance to turn the tide," and thus as important as Stalingrad the previous year. Werth is at his best in eyewitness accounts of Leningrad or of his tour (in -40° C. weather) through the Stalingrad area just after the mop-up there. The item about Russian children using the stiffly frozen body of a German soldier as a sled makes a one-sentence summary of the horror...