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...rectory in Wantage, birthplace of Alfred the Great. There his busy wife Penelope (daughter of Field Marshal Lord Chetwode) hunts and fishes with Pam-like energy, keeps an eye on their son and daughter and runs a thriving tea shop called King Alfred's Kitchen. She puts up jam; he musingly produces about one poem every six weeks. "Almost any age seems civilized except that in which I live," he once wrote. "But it's wrong to think my verse ironical. I write of things I care about." In The Old Liberals he hauntingly evoked not only...
...congressional opposition. The President in his budget message this week laid down the broad lines of the program. Chief recommendation: Congress should remove the present ceiling on the amount of private-home mortgages that FHA can insure. Although it shows a handsome profit, FHA last year twice had to jam on the brakes to seek more insurance authorization, now has a request for more money before Congress. In addition, the Administration wants Congress to wind up the Depression-born public-housing program, by 1963 to require cities and states to go halves (instead of one-third) on the land costs...
...second period began, with Guryshev scoring again at 0:16 on a screen shot from between the circles. A few minutes later, the Russian center picked up his third goal when, after Pratt had stopped his first shot from the right, he picked it up and fired through a jam-up in front of the goal to make the score...
Cordiner's carefully regulated, jam-packed life, relieved occasionally by golf (low 80s) or deep-sea fishing, is the product of a near obsession about time-the "fourth dimension in a corporation-beyond men, money and materials." When a G.E. executive recently suggested a 1963 deadline for a project, Cordiner asked for 1959. Says he: "That way we stand a good chance of getting it by 1961. Otherwise, we might...
Timex All-Star Jazz Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.)." Just like the three previous all-star jam sessions. A real hep crew-Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Gene Krupa-blasting out cool tunes...