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...morning the House perfunctorily approved the McConnell bill, 240 to 177. FEPC had been deprived of its teeth; if the bill became law (it seemed more probable that it would die in the Senate), it could be enforced only by mediation, conciliation, and telling an offender that he should mend his ways...
...general's fight to mend the morale of the group-which takes almost two-thirds of the film-is a self-contained story so absorbingly pictured that some cinemagoers may feel a letdown when there seems nothing left to fight but the Germans. But Director Henry King makes the most of his only combat sequence: a trim, exciting pattern of re-enacted shots intercut with official U.S. and German wartime film...
...summer he would vanish to his farm in upstate New York to mend roofs, trudge through the mud and bargain at cattle auctions. In spring he played on a campus softball team known as Carman's Indians. He himself often wondered whether he was the type for "deaning." "Here," he once said of himself, "is a good dirt farmer gone wrong...
...lack of steel, Detroit's automakers were forced to lay off 37,000 more workers this week. But except for strike-born dislocations, the U.S. seemed on the mend from the recession. Employment had picked up so much that U.S. officials removed five areas from their "critical" list of places with high unemployment...
...Reds slyly used the Episcopate's concession to discredit the church. President Gottwald freed 127 priests (jailed as hostages for their opposition to the government's new church laws), because they had "promised to mend their ways." A state court judge told the released priests: "I beg you to consider the significance and implied pledge of this magnanimous...