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...pocket veto is a minor but useful weapon in the President's arsenal. The U.S. Constitution provides that a bill passed by Congress becomes law ten days after it is sent to the President-unless Congress is adjourned at the end of that period. If such is the case, the President can kill a bill by simply pocketing it-doing nothing. Andrew Johnson was the first to think of using the pocket veto during an intrasession recess. Last week, in a historic decision, the third branch of Government ruled that the pocket veto can be used only when Congress...
...offered the money to Connally, the Treasury chief had refused to take it. Whereupon, the story went, Jacobsen put the cash in a safe-deposit box in a bank in Austin. To make the alibi stick, the prosecution believes, Connally gave Jacobsen $10,000 out of his own pocket to place...
Stravinsky's "Renard" and Poulenc's "Barbar the Elephant," two modern musical classics about animals, are at the Castle Hill Festival Concerts series Saturday night at 8:30 p.m. Besides the music, there's also classical mime by the Pocket Mime Theater...
Other American amateurs are better known: Will Rogers, who had a trick secreted in a pocket when his body was lifted from a plane crash; the late literary critic Edmund Wilson, who fooled his dinner guests with effects; Gary Grant, who likes to perform as the Great Carini at meetings at the Magic Castle...
Charles Dascal, 42, fled to Miami from Cuba in 1961 with only a few dollars in his pocket. He and another refugee scraped together $3,000 within a year, went into the electronics business and made a fortune. With six other Cuban Americans, Dascal, a college dropout, founded the Continental National Bank last May to serve the Miami area's roughly 350,000 Cubans (whose annual gross income tops $1 billion). Operating out of two trailers while permanent quarters are being built, the bank, says Chairman Dascal, "will enable the immigrants to build the solid foundation that any minority...