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8:45 p.m. Onstage, Jack takes time to rehearse a skit, then wanders around asking questions, checking on props, apparently calm. Abruptly, he strides into his dressing room. On the dim, dusty stage of the Hudson Theater, technicians keep rummaging about the little world of cables, cameras, and dingy sets...
The Benson bill, strongly favored by the American Farm Bureau Federation, had in fact sneaked up on Congress in the wake of the President's veto of the no-good price-freeze farm bill last March. Its principal achievement was that it was a considerable victory over Benson'...
Until recently, Shakespeare in this country (as in England) suffered from an inflated conception of the leading role and the personality of its portrayer, and from settings and props so ponderous and realistic that the long between-the-scenes waits necessitated wholesale abridgements of the text. No wonder the audiences...
McCrary put Goldfine through his paces on the prepared statement. While Goldfine read, McCrary "scored" the script, underlining with his red pencil the words that were to be "punched," i.e., emphasized; in the hearing Goldfine merely yelled every time he came to such a place. McCrary also noted that Goldfine...
¶ The House defeated by a resounding 214 (162 Republicans, 52 Democrats) to 171 (21 Republicans, 150 Democrats) the House Agriculture Committee's wild, catchall farm bill to expand subsidies by raising price props and tightening production controls on milk, corn and grain, sorghums. Cheered Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft...