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...onto spending bills that the House has cut to the bone. Last year Cannon propelled a resolution through his committee that charged the Senate with profligacy, noting that in the past ten years Senators had restored $22 billion previously slashed by the House. Virginia's Democratic Senator Willis Robertson, no great spender himself, called the resolution "the most insulting document that one body has ever sent to another." As he recalls that uproar, Clarence Cannon's face still fractures itself in a smile. He insists that the Senate has become much more responsible because of his taunts...
Died. Sir Dennis Holme Robertson, 72, Cambridge professor of political economy from 1944 to 1957 and one of Britain's most respected academic economists, who, working with John Maynard Keynes in 1926, wrote Banking Policy and the Price Level, which initiated Keynesian economics by examining the function and effect of savings in a capitalist economy, later broke with Keynes, believing him guilty of exaggerations and misrepresentations; of a heart attack; in Cambridge...
...Sonny won't talk. In scenes brimming with heigh-ho, Debbie and the tots, who are really the abandoned children of a migrant tobacco picker, go about housekeeping chores with more madness than method. Then Prince Charming, in the guise of a freewheeling young minister (Cliff Robertson), sets everything in order, including problems of ear washing, adoption and matrimony. Coos Debbie, who speaks Californian: "You're a regular wonder, Reverent...
...third quarter, despite a great performance by Oscar Robertson (43 points) and some scintillating clutch shooting by little Adrian Smith, things fell apart for the Royals: The Celtics just couldn't be contained any longer. They surged to a 108-93 third quarter lead behind the shooting of Jones, and stretched it to 123-98 in the fourth. The Royals were sizzling midway through the period--they outscored Boston 15 to 1 in one stretch--but could never get closer than nine points...
Though there are only five seniors on the squad, the youthful group (ten juniors 15 sophomores) does not lack a veteran core from last year's first eight. Returning lettermen include Captain and Senior Nick Bancroft, who rowed six last year; Senior Doug Robertson (four); Senior Spencer Bordon, (two); and Juniors Harry Pollock (seven) and Mike Dennis (stroke...