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...taken has been designed to increase legislative control over U.S. foreign aid. The Congress must realize that projects such as dams and roads need a steady flow of funds rather than an unsure, year-to-year allotment. Although the House committee's apparent distrust of the Administration's foreign savoir faire may be well-founded, it is nonetheless harmful to the conduct of international relations and to U.S. prestige...
...Savoir-Faire. In Detroit. Arnold L. Humphrey, 20, got a ten-day jail sentence for reckless driving after police spotted him perched on the door of his convertible with his legs dangling above the street, while he steered with one hand, worked the brake and the accelerator with a tree branch held in the other...
...tiresome, as you pointedly suggest. Doubtless, there were far too many official functions and politicians and too much heat, but we are not quite the unmannered, uncouth colonials your article implies . . . Your presidential parades and important civic affairs are not conducted with all that much of decorum and savoir faire, so why be superior about the undignified extroverts down thisa...
Even the students involved in the Foundation Program are divided as to its success. "The Ford student may lack the savoir faire of some of his classmates and his period of adjustment may be a few days longer," Charles Witz '55, commented, "but his progress is definite and in time he will outshine, if indeed he has not already done so, many of his classmates in thought and deed...
...only got 19,500 feet up McKinley because of the weather," says Francis, on the question of savoir-vivre, "but we learned what it takes to survive. His men were capable of playing chess for six days while stranded in a blizzard...