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...Rules. Speaker Rayburn cordially dislikes Cannon, a sentiment which is more than reciprocated. Yet somehow the two old men, each playing by the House rules, seem to balance each other. In 1950, when Appropriations Committee Chairman Cannon pushed his pet "one-package" appropriations bill (all main appropriations in one lump sum so the world could see the awful enormity of it all) through the House, an irate member complained bitterly to Rayburn. Mister Sam only shook his head. "I can't do a thing with Cannon," he said. "He's the most powerful man in the House." Yet the very...
...flying piston-engine DC-78. They will get $28,340 for skippering Boeing 707 jets, which American plans to put into service Jan. 25. The raises are retroactive to August 1957, when the old contract lapsed. That means a senior DC-7 pilot will pocket a lump of about $4,500 in back...
What a pleasure to have Mr. Morris Freedman pinpoint an ill of our times-the self-righteous, smug, pseudo-cultured attitude of the nonconformist [Dec. 15]. I am not ashamed of the lump in my throat when hearing The Star-Spangled Banner, and am utterly sick of the apologetic manner of many Americans who seem to think everything here uncouth, while everything European is cultured and avantgarde...
Instituted this year, the new installment plan gives undergraduates the option of paying their term bills monthly or in two lump sums, one at the beginning of each term...
...came this news report to the Arab people last week: "Eisenhower, the old man of the imperialist American dollar, visits his country's surgical hospitals every now and then to undergo some operation or other. This has gone on so long that his body has become one big lump of drugs. The ultimate treatment for a septic part of the body is amputation, and, as many patches on Eisenhower's body will eventually end him up on the city dump, so will the imperialist struggle definitely fall into the abyss...