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...object of Jenner's wrath was the $5.5 billion authorization bill to carry ECA through its next 15 months of operation (see INTERNATIONAL). All week long a little knot of Republicans chipped and chiseled away at the whole tripod of U.S. foreign policy-ECA, the North Atlantic pact, the arms program for Western Europe. Their weapon was an amendment drafted by Nebraska's Republican floor leader Kenneth Wherry, which would lop $1.9 billion off ECA's budget and extend it only a year...
Vagabond loosened his tie knot the least bit, threw away his cigarette. At the plate the coach hefted the fungo bat, swung through easily, and looped the ball to the leftfielder...
...ripple of muffled applause swept across the gloved and mittened crowd. Sitting in a little knot of satellite diplomats, Russian Ambassador Alexander Panyushkin looked stonily ahead...
...Dutch had promised an Indonesian federation, with sovereignty and equal partnership in a Dutch commonwealth, but they could not agree with the tough little republic on the necessary interim arrangements or on the final blueprint. Last month, in a final effort to break the knot, a mission from The Hague under Foreign Minister Derek Stikker journeyed to Batavia. The Dutch claimed that the republic was waging a disruptive campaign of kidnaping, murder and arson. The republicans claimed that The Netherlands was trying to set up "puppet states" in some areas of Java and Sumatra which the Dutch had seized from...
...morning last week Bad Boy leaned out the window of the second-story furnished room where he had holed up in Chester. A knot of men were standing below. Bad Boy began acting silly. He dropped a dime and called down, "Call the cops." One of the men picked up the dime, said: "This will get me a cup of coffee." Bad Boy got crazy mad. He reached back, got a .22 rifle, aimed it out the open window, killed one of the men below...