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Although one member then complained that "we can't even make a motion to adjourn," Sloane closed the meeting after he suggested that the members consider the formation of a "pen pal system...
...minute hand on the gold-numeraled clock on his desk showed eight minutes after 10 a.m. as the President picked up his black pen and wrote across the document that lay before him: "Approved. Dwight D. Eisenhower." Earlier in the week, the Senate had passed by 72 votes (42 Republicans, 30 Democrats) to 19 votes (16 Democrats, three Republicans*) the Eisenhower Doctrine, which offers U.S. military and economic help to free nations to keep Communism out of the Middle East (see box). Now Ike looked up and said to Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, "The ninth...
...Although U.S. officials hoped at week's end that the crisis will not come to sanctions against Israel, one stroke of the President's pen could shatter the Israeli economy. In 1956 Israel had a deficit of $365 million, most of it made up with income from U.S. sources-including $49 million in U.S. Government aid, $91 million from philanthropic organizations like United Jewish Appeal, $52 million from U.S. sales of Israel Bonds, $74 million from private U.S. remittances...
...haired Hans in righteous indignation. Just in time, an utter stranger saves the brothers from certain ingestion. "Only for you," towheaded Fritz thanks their rescuer, "ve vos on der half-shell." And so, as it has since their birth 60 years ago, another bit of nonsense fell off the pen of Cartoonist Rudolph Dirks to save the world's most durable delinquents of the funny page for more low jinks next week...
...Rudolph Dirks is the most tenacious cartoonist in the U.S., and at 60 his pen children, the Katzenjammer Kids, are the oldest inhabitants of the U.S. comic strips...