Word: kept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, $1.6 billion program, hammered a $2.6 billion plan through the Senate by early February. Then Dwight Eisenhower's budget battle began to take hold, and the companion House bill, delayed until mid-May, was cut to $2.1 billion. Most of the House cuts were kept in Senate-House conference, but the "omnibus"' bill sent to the President last fortnight still looked to the White House to be strong with costly gadgets...
...partly social criticism liberally laced with cyanide, partly a Charles Addams kind of jolly ghoulishness, and partly a personal and highly disturbing hostility toward all the world. No one's flesh crawled when Jack Benny carried on a running gag about a bear named Carmichael that he kept in the cellar and that had eaten the gasman when he came to read the meter. The novelty and jolt of the sickniks is that their gags ("I hit one of those things in the street-what do you call it, a kid?") come so close to real horror and brutality...
...this week, the Met proudly displayed its latest major acquisition, proving that it suffers no lack of purchase funds. The well-nigh priceless St. John's Vision (see color), by El Greco, was bought from the estate of Spanish Painter-Collector Ignacio Zuloaga. And although Director James Rorimer kept the price to himself, he called the canvas one of the 20 most important purchases in the Metropolitan's history...
Died. Raymond Campbell Schindler, 77, low-keyed, grimly patient private detective who marshaled all the resources of modern criminology, spent months and huge sums of money to catch such peculiarly modern-day badmen as scrap-metal grafters and lackadaisical meat distributors, kept dramatic, publicized feats to a minimum (by proving incriminating fingerprints faked, he cleared Client Alfred de Marigny of the celebrated Bahamas murder of Sir Harry Oakes), never once wore a gun, or used his fist; of a heart attack; in Tarrytown...
...readers from the non-handshaking to the handshaking column. But most of all, what it offers is 1) some fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpses of an extraordinary political career; 2) further material for speculation about the subject of what Democratic political workers call the "Nixophobia"-a scrapbook on Nixon kept at the Democratic National Committee (a less bulky collection on the President is known as the "Iklopedia...