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While urgently advocating a full measure of foreign aid, the President insisted that he meant nothing personal by his remarks. He looked directly across the table at South Carolina's courtly Democratic Representative James Prioleau Richards, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and, despite his record of support for the Eisenhower foreign policy, the leader of this year's drive for foreign-aid reduction. There was a moment of awkward silence, broken by Speaker Sam Rayburn. Said Mr. Sam: "I love Dick Richards. This time he's wrong and I will oppose him-but I still love...
After 23 years in Congress, South Carolina's tall, grey-thatched James Prioleau Richards, 61, looks longingly towards the end of the year, when he will relinquish his House seat, go back to his 500-acre cattle farm at Heath Springs (pop. 700), there "lie down on my back and look up at the moon and wonder what's up there." Last week, while the State Department gasped and the Defense Department groaned, Dick Richards decided the Administration was reaching for that same moon and asking too many sixpence in foreign aid next year...
Princeton junior varsity: Bow, Orr; 2, Rupley; 3, Somerville; 4, Alexander; 5, Hardy; 6, Rodgers; 7, Robinson; stroke, Prioleau; Cox, Jacobs...