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...Washington bureaucrat could see, something was wrong in Utah. All the computers and calculators of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget clicked off the same answer: Utah wasn't spending enough money, wasn't drawing her full allowance of federal grants-in-aid. Quicker than he could count up the digits in the national debt, an investigator was winging his way toward Salt Lake City to find out what was the trouble...
...casually as a campfire tale, Of Men and Mountains rambles through the experiences of scores of camping trips, lingering longest where the trout are thickest. Author Douglas is a passionate advocate of dry-fly fishing, but he knows a quicker way to catch his supper if the trout is lying in moss or under a bank. Procedure: tread softly, bring the hand up cautiously under the fish, stroke him gently, hoist him from the water. "A trout," declares Douglas, "loves to have his belly rubbed...
...felt the pressure sooner than most because his six husky youngsters could eat their way through hi $240-a-month pay envelope quicker than a horde of grasshoppers could clean an alfalfa field. During the first month he had been forced to cut out the weekly ration of 28 quarts of milk, and cut down the weekly six dozen eggs. Later, Tom himself began eating breakfast and lunch regularly at Local 961's strike kitchen, then tried to go easy when he sat down with the family to their meatless dinners...
...three and a half hour public debate on NSA's future status. One, a "has it been worth the money" approach, was summed up in a remark by Council Secretary Patrick B. McCormick '50, who said, "If NSA didn't cost us anything, the Council would approve it quicker than Ireland would elect Saint Patrick prime minister...
Caught up, Pegler retracted his error with a sleight-of-hand pass designed to be quicker than readers' eyes. ("Only recently [I] caught myself in the mistaken belief that Rufus Bullock . . . was the great-grandfather of the Empress Eleanor.") In doing so, he pulled another mudball out of his hat. Demanded Pegler, with the air of a man getting to the heart of the matter: "But who, then, was Rufus the rogue? What...