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...been acted upon. He called for an aid-to-education bill, medical aid for the aged, "constructive" farm measures, an increase in the minimum wage. And he added a warning that he would veto bills with unreasonably high price tags: "I shall not be a party to reckless spending schemes ... I shall not fail to resist inflationary pressures by whatever means are available...
...Halifax served briefly, had a member of the upper house held the high office of Foreign Secretary. Worse, said the Liberal News Chronicle, Macmillan's man was a peer whose career had progressed only from "the negligible to the mediocre." The Laborite Daily Mirror called it "the most reckless political appointment since the Roman Emperor Caligula made his favorite horse a consul," and the independent-conservative Spectator, far from disagreeing, called the comparison "apt" and added: "The Earl of Home at his best has shown signs of equine intelligence." The object of all this objurgation is one of unflappable...
...Reckless Rush. At week's end reckless Patrice Lumumba took off for New York and the U.N. The heady prospect of having a world forum for his torrential words seems, in Lumumba's opinion, well worth the risk of being ousted from power while absent from his disordered homeland. In Leopoldville and some of the other large cities under U.N. control, a few factories were cautiously reopened by European managers, and peddlers were again hawking carved trinkets of ivory and mahogany on the streets. But there was promise of a new dispute. Belgian troops withdrew only...
...claimed he had not attacked Garcia directly, had in fact only repeated criticisms he had heard second hand. Said Osmeňa: "I felt it my duty to air these grievances with a view of securing remedial legislation." Calling Osmeňa's attack the "most scurrilous, malicious, reckless, irresponsible ever delivered in the House," the committee recommended action against...
...Declared that a U.S. RB-47E reconnaissance plane had been shot down over Soviet territorial waters and accused the U.S. of "provoking a serious military conflict" by sending the plane on its mission. Khrushchev failed in his attempt to make the U.S. seem reckless and belligerent in the eyes of the world, but by shooting down the plane the Russians did achieve at least a temporary cessation of U.S. reconnaissance flights off Russia's Arctic coast (see FOREIGN NEWS...