Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Economy Whisper. For six days Halleck worked to whip his forces into line. Absentees were summoned to Washington from as far away as Warsaw and Moscow (only authorized absentee: Washington's golfing, honeymooning Republican Jack Westland). For 35 Republicans who were doubtful, or definitely in favor of overriding, Halleck and G.O.P. Whip Les Arends had quiet warning ("Either you go along with the President, or you don't") and promises from Interior Secretary Fred Seaton to revive eight politically strategic projects in next year's budget. Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, ever the foe of spending, whispered that...
...cost more sweat and legislative pain than any other act since Taft-Hartley. Jack Kennedy's political prestige was committed to the relatively mild Kennedy bill (even though it had been beefed up in a floor fight led by Arkansas' John McClellan), and the Kennedy bill passed the Senate 90-1. President Eisenhower's power and prestige were committed to the sterner bill sponsored by Georgia Democrat Phil Landrum and Michigan Republican Robert Griffin which he had bulled through the House (229-201) with his effective television appeal (TIME, Aug. 17). Few old hands on Capitol Hill...
...Independence, Mo., Harry S. Truman, 75, and Jack Benny, 65, shuffled their scripts, studied their lines, rehearsed for a forthcoming Jack Benny Program on TV. Mingling laughs with instruction...
Benny and Truman will show U.S. citizens where to go to study the history and philosophy of the U.S. presidency: the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence. "I'm doing it for Jack Benny and nobody else," said Truman, explaining that last year Benny had got out his violin to help "pull the Kansas City Philharmonic out of debt." As for the present show: "We want to keep it dignified," said Benny. "And we are," said Truman. "I'll kill myself if it isn't," said Benny. "All right," Truman punch-lined...
Going into the ninth, the Dodgers' Koufax knew he had to fan the side. Giant Ed Bressoud was strike-out No. 16. Danny O'Connell was No. 17. Finally, swinging haplessly, Pitcher Jack Sanford was the big No. 18, and Koufax had broken the league record of 17 strikeouts set by the Cardinals' Dizzy Dean in 1933, tied the major-league mark set by Cleveland's Fireballer Bob Feller in 1938. To cap his performance, Koufax singled in the rally that won the game...