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Some Democrats, feeling the sting of recent Republican attacks on "spenders," grumbled that foreign aid might still be the place to cut. Such ardent Democratic believers in economic aid as Montana's Mike Mansfield and Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy were disappointed at the Draper committee's accent on arms. And Illinois' Everett Dirksen, Senate Republican leader, made the best of both worlds by saying that if the Draper committee recommended $400 million more than the President's $3.9 billion, then the least the Congress could do was to get busy and pass the $3.9 billion...
...found a piano that served for music lessons for her four children; a Lincoln housewife found a perfectly usable playpen for her baby. To the dumps, too, come service committees from the League of Women Voters and even local politicians in search of a ready-made audience. On one recent Sunday, a crowd of happy-go-dumping Hingham residents showed up with jugs of martinis and plates of hors d'oeuvres, proceeded to make a three-martini cocktail hour to cap off the dumping chores...
...serious blow in this department was the recent loss of left-handed junk-baller Gerry Emmet. Emmet had two or three fine games to his credit last year and might have been the top Crimson pitcher this spring. However, he injured his shoulder playing for the squash team during the winter months, and is now a very shaky prospect at best...
...most recent book, Five Ideas that Change the World, was published within the past two months. "The origins of the book are interesting," she says. "The Prime Minister of Ghana asked me to lecture to the students at the University soon after Ghana achieved its independence in 1957. I attempted to explain that the experiences of Ghana, such as colonialism and industrialism, were part of the common experience of mankind. The book is pretty much the same as those lectures, only transcribed into readable English...
...most recent Picassos until The Bathers, I find frankly disappointing. They have been generally flip, too off-hand, even downright sloppy. Many of the canvases, contrary assertions aside, have been leaving the studio too fast. There are those who declare that Picasso is at last treating his mesmerized public to the joke skeptics accused him of playing as early as the 1900's. This, however, is difficult to accept. If the man has begun to fool anyone he has first gulled his own ego. These latest statements are fully as ingenuous as the most taut of his analytical cubist masterpieces...