Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...polished brown mahogany table in the White House Cabinet room the congressional leaders gathered-Senators seated up front with Ike, Dulles. Lodge and Nixon, Representatives seated against the walls. A Filipino mess steward served coffee. (Ike drank Sanka.) Through the long French windows a light snow could be seen covering the rose garden as the President began to speak: "Here is the situation and what I'm going to do about...
...have received personal letters about the budget from nearly every state in the union," said Missouri's Clarence Cannon to his colleagues in the House, "and every one of them urges a reduction." Oldtimer Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has seen 34 federal budgets come and go over the years, but he cannot recall anything like the current public outcry against President Eisenhower's $71.8 billion fiscal-1958 budget, biggest in the nation's peacetime history...
...followed up, pouring 72 rockets into the village; for best effect the operation was spaced over six hours. The demonstration left British observers cold. Said the London Times correspondent: "Curiously obsolete . . . and bound to provide the Yemen with handsome propaganda." But somewhere up in their hills the tribesmen had seen an air show unique in its time: a performance which cost the R.A.F. $85,000, but demolished only ten of Danaba's 15 houses...
...personal vendeuse, each vendeuse her jealously guarded clients. Many will return later to make their decisions. But others, momentarily unhinged, corral their vendeuses, rush off to a grey-curtained alcove, get out of their street dresses and demand to try on themselves one of the creations they have just seen modeled...
Dean Watson commented, "In my eleven years at Harvard, I have never seen any outside group, alumni or otherwise, influence this sort of decision." Watson acknowledged, however, that attempts had been made...