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...which began to gnaw the rope, which began to hang the butcher, who began to kill the ox, which began to drink the water, which began to quench the fire, which began to burn the stick, which began to beat the dog, which began to bite the little pig-which then in fright jumped over the stile so that the old woman brought it home from market that night after...
...Fascism, the government got more and more deeply mixed up in the economy, and has never since got out of it. Today the government mines all of Italy's coal and 80% of her iron ore; it produces more than three-quarters of the nation's pig iron and half its steel, enjoys a monopoly or near monopoly of rail, sea and air transport, and competes with private industry in the manufacture of scores of products ranging from chocolates to Alfa Romeo cars...
...deny the Administration's request to spend some $200 million of already authorized funds in the Middle East without congressional restriction. Russell lost no time in using the foreign-aid provision of the Eisenhower Doctrine to attack the whole U.S. foreign-aid program. "I refuse to ... buy a pig in a poke without knowing its size or weight ... As a matter of fact, we do not even know if there is a pig in the poke . . . We must start tapering off the foreign-aid program if we ever hope to have a program of fiscal responsibility at home...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27--Sen. Russell (D-Ga.), making a new effort to limit the scope of President Eisenhower's Middle East program, said today Congress was being asked to buy "a pig in the poke...
...Comic Sammy Hogarth, played by Mickey Rooney as if the part were fitted to him in Savile Row, is the man who gives the chuckle to TV's 40,000,000 chuckleheads, but to those who know him he is a "lumbering pachyderm with the face of a pig, the smell of a skunk, the appetite of a tomcat and the voice of Joe Miller." He has a tapeworm hunger for the attention, laughter and love of 40 million people, an insatiable craving to receive all the gifts he himself is incapable of giving...