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...doing today," protested Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long, "is raising revenue, not spending it." Attacking Republican Senator Winston Prouty's proposal to extend social security benefits to all Americans aged 70 or more, Louisiana's Long cried that "it would be just as well to scatter $100 bills in a high wind." For all his protestations, the Senate, in mutinous mood, approved a variation of Prouty's amendment to the Administration's tax-boosting bill that would cost $120 million in its first year...
...Madrid and Washington, the two governments revealed that only one of the three recovered bombs had actually survived the fall intact. Some of the TNT detonators on the other two had exploded on impact and ruptured the shell casing, permitting some radioactive plutonium and uranium to scatter over 18 acres in the impact area. However, there was no cause for alarm, Spain's Nuclear Energy Board quickly assured. Of the 2,000 "potentially exposed" people in the area, 1,800 had been examined thus far, and none had received a dangerous dose. What is more, added the board, "there...
...mile East African Safari, it helps if a driver knows his zoology. Cows confronted by cars act plain stupid: they have to be bumpered off the road. Sheep and goats scatter at the first toot. Elephants are cops, happily waving on traffic with their trunks. Rhinos just charge. Gazelles, zebras and wildebeests are timorous but hardheaded: if a car gets between them and their water hole, adieu auto! As for the little creatures-like 150-lb. wart hogs-a driver can only keep his fingers crossed. "They're impossible to see until you hit them," explained TIME Stringer Henry...
...what does she do? Does she ugly up her voice, play the sex queen, scatter knowing winks? Not a bit of it. She just stands there and sings--throwing in a few minute gestures. And as the song gets grizzlier she sings softer and softer, until she's almost whispering--about piles of dead bodies. It was chilling...
...fickle pop market, most other record makers operate on a scatter-platter basis, indiscriminately grinding out some 100 new records each week on a hit-and-nearly-always-miss basis. Spector, by contrast, has shown an uncanny knack for catching adolescent ears with nearly every record he produces. Almost all of them celebrate post-pubescent passion: Be My Baby, Then He Kissed Me, Wait Til' My Bobby Gets Home. Spector has already made bigtime teen-market recording stars of a succession of singers and vocal groups such as the Ronettes, Bobb B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans, Darlene Love...