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...believe in idle gestures," said he, and gracefully helped the farm bill along to an agriculture committee that will probably let it mildew for the rest of the session. The pork-barrel bill went to the Public Works Committee for a word-for-word review that might skim off the lard that Ike rejected...
...onetime psychology major at Princeton, Fielding cannot resist skim-deep analyses of national temperaments. The Spanish are sweet and mannerly but also stubborn and ornery. The Danes, far from being melancholy, are "the Bob Hopes of Europe." The French, they are a funny race, according to Fielding, with a schizophrenic "conflict between generosity and niggardliness, idealism and cynicism, fieriness and apathy, gaiety and shrewdness." Fielding can be rough on Americans, too. He lashes out at "hog-mannered U.S. drugstore-cowboys," warns U.S. matrons with chassis by Hokinson: "Don't take slacks or shorts, unless you have a figure like...
...Iran still claims that "the principle of sharing profits fifty-fifty between partners has been respected." it will get its extra 25% by bringing the state-run National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) in as an equal partner with Italy's ENI. From any profits, the Iranian government will skim a 50% royalty off the top; then the remaining 50% will be divided equally between ENI and NIOC. In addition, ENI will ante up NIOC's initial contribution to the joint company on a "loan" basis, pump another $22,250,000 into the venture over the next twelve years...
...Reducing pills sold without prescription are not only useless and possibly dangerous but exorbitantly priced," Nutritionist S. William Kalb of Newark told a congressional committee investigating advertising for "dietless" reducing treatments. Dr. Kalb passed out samples of a brand made of skim milk and lemon juice, estimated that the manufacturers made "about a 400,000% profit" on the pills. Added Dr. Kalb relentlessly: Diet is the only way to reduce...
Impatient of the dull details of a law case or parliamentary debate he prefers to delegate the slogging staff work of poltics; he can skim a 300-page legal brief to his satisfaction in an hour and a half. Canadians say that he is their "first Prime Minister with a hearty laugh...