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...Robert F. Kennedy '48 (D-N.Y.) indicates that he will try to restore cuts voted by the House when the bill reaches the Senate-House Conference Committee. But even if he is successful, Rep. George H. Mahon (D-Tex.), chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, has said the House will not approve an appropriation above the $1.6 billion figure...
...Ohio Republican Frank Bow, they forced a committee vote on a measure that would limit spending during the current fiscal year to $131.5 billion-$5 billion less than the President's administrative budget estimate -with nonmilitary programs bearing the burden of the cut. Appropriations Chairman George Mahon, a Johnson supporter and fellow Texan, managed to defeat the measure in committee...
Extravagant for Alexander. Now and then, Baden-Powell ventured into the Boer lines to reconnoiter their positions. Much of the time he engaged in games, sketching and composing his fanciful reports to London. It seemed almost a pity when a column under Colonel Bryan ("The Mahout") Mahon rode into town to effect the celebrated relief. The whole Empire went gaga. In London, "Mafeking Night" lasted five days. It was, writes Gardner, "a vast and apparently uncontrollable upsurge of joy, nationalism, and mended pride...
Despite the size of the budget-a record $135 billion-the President has relatively little room in which to maneuver. At least $100 billion can neither be cut nor shifted around. The rest will certainly come in for what House Appropriations Committee Chairman George Mahon calls a "skeptical evaluation" from the 90th Congress...
...Washington, Chairman George Mahon of the House Appropriations Committee, declared: "The loss of these men, and an aircraft in which more than $500 million has been invested, while accommodating the public relations department of a private company, is indefensible." Actually, the B70 cost closer to $750 million. Not measurable in dollars were the lives of two pilots and the future hours of supersonic research that were lost in the Mojave...