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...Phillies drew two more weapons from their arsenal to swipe the second game, 1-0, behind the sterling relief work of Gene Garber (2.37 ERA) and a tenth-inning single by ex-Dodger Ted Sizemore (.282), who represents the Philly slap-hitting contingent...
...Budget. He was one of the President's top economic advisers, his affable and reassuring ambassador to the business community and his most effective emissary to Capitol Hill. A great, shambling, unassuming bear of a man (6 ft. 4 in., 235 Ibs.), Lance loved to swap jokes, slap backs and artfully cajole the powerbrokers to go along with Jimmy. More important, Lance was Carter's confidant. He was there to puff around the tennis court when the President summoned, or simply to sit down, kick off his shoes and talk on and on in his rumbling, resonant voice...
...returned to Europe with the Canadian Royal Air Force and died in action in 1941. Despite that tragedy, Decca tells, with a nice sense of wartime humor, of her duty on the Washington front in the Office of Price Administration. At last it is the moment for the slap in the face of the British Empire-the really big Mitford-sister gesture. After moving to California, marrying a brilliant radical lawyer. Bob Treuhaft, and becoming a naturalized citizen, Decca Mitford joined the Communist Party. What more could a daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale...
...that forces her to stop at nothing--stealing, biting and screaming--to get what she wants. She is the kind of woman who appears to need more than just a little calming; the kind we expect to see tamed when a man decides to strap her across his shoulders, slap her a few good ones on the old backside, and then carry her struggling and scratching all the way up to the bedroom...
Conservative Republicans were outraged. Snapped G.O.P. National Chairman William Brock: "A tragic error." Declared California Congressman Robert Dornan: "They're breaking out the vodka and caviar in Moscow." Republican House Leader John Rhodes of Arizona accused Carter of giving the House "a rather gratuitous slap in the face" by not announcing his decision prior to its vote on the B-1 funds. Only 48 hours before Carter dropped his bombshell, the House had beaten back, by a vote of 243 to 178, an amendment to delete from the defense budget $1.5 billion for production of five...