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...food prices. Immediately the House strategists conferred, under the prism-hung chandelier in Speaker Sam Rayburn's ornate office. Telegrams were hurried off to more than 50 absentees, mostly in the big cities along the Atlantic seaboard. Members of the House Whip organization streamed in, got a broad sketch of the veto message, were told to go to work on Republicans and Democrats alike with one big argument: "There is going to be a certain amount of inflation, we all know that. It is here already. But we've got to keep the dam propped up some...
...nine more bodies within a 25-yd. area. There were plenty of bullet clips in the little leather cases which hung on the wearers' belts. Near the bottom of the slope lay the body of a Japanese captain. His silk white handkerchief was centered by a lewd ink sketch. A couple of hundred yards down the valley we found a dead Japanese officer who carried, like most Japs, photographs of his wife and children. It had rained the previous night, so the officer's open mouth was half filled with water...
...declares that her prophecies, in whatever form, are determined by what she calls "They." She has tried to paint without "Them" but has not been satisfied. Of her normal procedure she says: "They move my hand up and down and onward. . . . Then, all at once, They make a rudimentary sketch or perhaps They begin to paint without any sketch or outline at all. They work rapidly and never fail to reprove me when I do not respond readily or if I am in any way inattentive." Mrs. Bush confesses to a horror of the supernatural and a lack of interest...
Restored to love and responsibility, the prince must return to his rose. He proposes to take Saint-Exupéry's sketch of the sheep (which will grow into flesh and bone). But sheep eat bushes-and the little prince demands a sketch of a muzzle...
Opening with a greeting from George H. Chase '96, Dean of the University, the pamphlet offers a short course in the history of Harvard and its buildings, follows with a list of services, a guide-book section with a map, and ends in a thumbnail sketch of the various military groups contained in the University...