Word: provisos
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...House Ways and Means Committee two weeks ago, but the so-called "Puritan ethic" amendment touched a responsive chord in the nation. Encouraged by the reaction, House Republicans met last week, overwhelmingly agreed to introduce an even tougher amendment when the bill reaches the floor this week. The proviso would delay the tax cut unless the President, in January's budget message, promises to hold spending to $97 billion for the current fiscal year (v. an already budgeted $98.8 billion) and to $98 billion for fiscal 1965. Without such a rider, said Wisconsin's John Byrnes, ranking Republican...
...opportunity to prove Fidel Castro a puppet, he needn't merely imitate the cartoonists by calling him one. There seems to be no reason why the President couldn't have announced an intended blockade, conditional on Cuban refusal to come to terms, a la his nuclear testing proviso last March...
...field disagreed, opposed dealing with any Laotian leader who seemed soft on Communism. They argued that the U.S.-trained and equipped Royal Laotian Army of 28,000 men under General Phoumi was the only bulwark against a Red takeover. The Pentagon generally backed the CIA, but with the proviso that, under no conditions, should U.S. armed forces be plunged into the landlocked, trackless jungles of Laos...
...agreement also includes a proviso that the government should take the initiative "for itself and the West" on all questions directly affecting Germany-even to the point of accepting Germany-wide disarmament and neutrality as a possible basis for reunification. Konrad Adenauer will ignore such far-out conditions when he sits down with President Kennedy next week. As in the past, he will reject recognition of East Germany and of East Germany's Oder-Neisse frontier with Poland. On the issue of a neutralized Germany, the doughty old Chancellor has made it clear that he will never budge...
...British royal family's ambitious Triumph of Caesar, which Charles I bought, is in such poor condition that it could not be sent at all. Spain was mysteriously uncooperative. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art was prevented from lending its Madonna because of the donor's proviso, and the Museum of Art in Copenhagen decided to keep its Christ Seated on a Sarcophagus because it is so popular with tourists...