Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the bill was called on the Senate floor last week, Fulbright doggedly introduced a 3% interest amendment. But Republicans pulled him up short a second time. They argued that the lower interest rate was a short-term rate unsuitable to long-term loans, defeated the amendment (41-40) in a straight party vote. But when the bill had been shaped to suit them, 20 Republicans shifted, helped pass (60-26) and send to the House the measure making loans available for small-town schools, hospitals, sewers, parks and recreational facilities...
...what may have been the understatement of the week, Anderson saw a "likelihood" that 1959 income would fall short of January estimates. Privately, Treasury officials consider a shortfall inevitable, guesstimate it at $4 billion or more. Net result: a 1959 deficit of perhaps $8 billion...
...city (pop. 21,100). Five pistol shots rang out and, just ten yards from the Hereon's box office, a man slumped to the sidewalk, wounded in face, chest, abdomen and hand. The gunman fired a sixth shot and disappeared among the shoppers. The victim, who died a short while later, was a man especially disliked by EOKA terrorists: William Dear, 61-year-old police interrogator of the Special Branch. He was the first Englishman killed since the Greek Cypriot underground declared its truce 13 months...
Scheduling of this type has been attempted unsuccessfully in the past. Fox blamed the earlier failures on the "short-sightedness" that marks Harvard dramatics. In January, the Inter-House Drama Committee tried to set up a schedule for Spring play activities in the Houses, but the conflicting productions of last weekend witness the shortcomings of this effort...
...those who worked during their interim period, a surprising number went to sea. Many others, McArthur maintains, were content with a rather negative self-image in their choice of vocation, often working in jobs like that of a short-order cook...