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...President's optimism drew an edgy retort from United Steelworkers' President Dave McDonald. "I would say," said McDonald, "that the President is being illadvised. With 135,000 members of our union unemployed and 300,000 more working part-time, there is the possibility of a real recession developing in our country"-and even a "full-fledged depression" by January...
...sharp retort, Mboya's American associates say that only two or three of this year's batch of 200 Kenya students in the U.S. dropped out-and even they had gained from going to school in the U.S. Some are also swapping campuses: Washington A.J. Okumu, who began at Iowa Wesleyan, now has a two-year scholarship at Harvard. What counts, says Mboya's men, is that Africans need higher education at all levels-and that the British fail to provide enough...
Whose Play? Gromyko managed a game smile, then recovered to retort: "I should like to ask from what play all this has been taken, and when that play is going to be performed." Replied Lodge: "It is not out of any play ... I produced that to show the thoroughness of Soviet espionage." It was all faintly funny, and Basile Vitsaxis, the Greek delegate...
...soon found that budget-conscious Ike had the moderate-minded U.S. behind him, and beat a dignified retreat. When Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler castigated Johnson for being too cautious and conservative, the Senate Democrats rose up, almost to a man, to defend Johnson, and gave Butler the retort proper: mind your own business. As a good legislator, Johnson believes in taking a fatherly interest in the political and personal welfare of every one of his Democratic colleagues. If a fellow Senator is sick, Johnson demands a daily report-three or more a day, if the illness is serious...
...prisoners, but otherwise told Hoess that he would have to make do with what he had. Somehow, Hoess did-and he is as methodically informative as a suburbanite fighting crab grass as he discusses the relative merits of poison gasses and the superiority of threeretort crematory ovens to four-retort ovens. Hoess remembers with almost nostalgic pride a date of peak efficiency when the camp gassed and cremated "rather more than 9,000" in a 24-hour period...