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...faked a heart attack when pressure was put on him to put a resolution to a vote. But today's House operates with much less rancor than in the past and more give-and-take. Said Sam Rayburn, one of the greatest Speakers, and yet one of the mildest: "The old day of pounding the desk and giving people hell is gone. We're all grown up now. A man's got to lead by persuasion and kindness and the best reason...
...occurred the most successful student revolt in the history of the college; it was also the mildest. A large body of students gathered in the Yard one evening, passed resolutions against President Samuel Langdon, and noisily demanded his dismissal. After reading the charges brought against him, Langdon submitted his resignation without objection...
...word recession is rarely mentioned any more, except by those economists who offer a hindsight opinion that the economic standstill may actually have been a "quasi-recession"-which would certainly make it the mildest on record. Now discussion centers on just how far the advance will go. Last week the President's Council of Economic Advisers reported that the gross national product rose to a record annual rate of $572 billion in the first quarter, $2 billion more than the Administration had predicted. Chase Manhattan Bank Vice President William F. Butler figures that G.N.P. will reach $582 billion...
...some reason, knighted, has become some sort of a passive Eric Portman figure, and no longer imposes any recognizable pattern on the various narrative fragments. Arthur Brown, to take only one other example, has suddenly sprouted a Falstaffian beard and manner: in the book, of course, he is the mildest and most sober of men. In fact, only G. H. Winslow, the College's delightfully tart ex-Bursar, and M. H. L. Gay, the Senior Fellow, retain any of their Snow-given characteristics; and their function is minor and wholly comic. The other figures are inadequately drawn and only sketchily...
...recession strikes so soon, the current recovery will prove to be the shortest as well as the shallowest since the war. But there is one consolation: most economists reckon that, whenever it comes, the next recession will be one of the mildest ever, because the economy has not built up big enough for a hard fall...