Word: mented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smoke & Beef. With the exception of a successful amendment by Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen J. Ellender, chairman of the Agriculture Committee, to limit the program to two years, all attempts at weakening the bill were defeated. Delaware Republican John J. Williams introduced an amend ment that could end subsidies on to bacco, which for 30 years has received supports as one of the U.S.'s six "basic" agricultural commodities. Nonsmoker Williams wondered "whether the tax payers should subsidize the production of this commodity, which the Surgeon General and other responsible physicians have said is harmful...
Solution: Suicide. After Hodgins left the hospital and went back to his apart ment, with a practical nurse in charge, he got a nasty series of jolts. He could not button his shirt, tie his shoes, spell certain kinds of words; worst of all, he could no longer operate a typewriter. A former managing editor of FORTUNE, author of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, and an associate of Pollster Elmo Roper, Hodgins felt almost as dependent on his typewriter as a scuba diver on his air tank. Faced with a future of uselessness, he no longer wanted a future...
Surprisingly, though, the story seldom lags, mainly because some first-chop talents go at it as if the idea were spanking-new. Director René Clèment (Forbidden Games) mounts several taut scenes, especially one in which passengers aboard a crowded train seize a Gestapo agent and fling him onto the rails. Fortunately, too, the dialogue by Novelist Roger Vailland neatly sidesteps heroics. "The war doesn't interest me," drawls Signoret, whose husband is safely lodged in a P.W. camp...
...drank a belated brandy to Opa's memory. Only after the initial thrill of renewal ties was there time for furtive whispers about the future. Could the Communists really close the Wall again Jan. 5-the deadline-now that both East and West Berliners had tasted a mo ment of freedom? It was bound to erode Communism's barrier, and to speed the day when, sooner or later, the ugly Wall would have to come down...
Convinced that an commonical approachement is not served by expressions of benevalence but rather by a ment of the existing differences between the two makes in Western Carintianity, I had occasion to call attention in a series of which continue to form obstacles to . The fact that I could indicate that every one of my critical marginalls had been touched spot by our or more med to me the true measure of the nites of this Second session. A transcript of this paper is to be published in the forth issue of Current. Ho A. Chairman Professor of Church History