Word: slashings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after day (he has started every game this year), Banks has trouble getting the right jump on the ball, sometimes boots the play that sets up a rally. But, better than any other shortstop in history, Ernie Banks can right the score all by himself With one vicious slash of his lightweight, heavy-hitting...
...Deputy Under Secretary Douglas Dillon helped persuade Congress to authorize a $3,675,000,000 program, only $275 million below the Administration request. But actual appropriations, handled apart from program authorization, got ambushed in the House, where Louisiana Democrat Otto Passman, chairman of key Appropriations Subcommittee, engineered a slash of $597 million below authorization figure ($872 million below Administration request). President Eisenhower desk-hammered at G.O.P. congressional leaders ("This thing is vital to our country's interest") too late to sway House but in time to buck up Senate Appropriations Committee, which restored $440 million. With the Senate likely...
Foreign Aid. Texas' Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and other Senate chieftains were laying plans to put back at least two-thirds of the House's $600 million slash in foreign aid appropriations...
...side-swipes at the lost art of satire, and both flop for the same reasons. Felicia Lamport's "By Henry James Cozened" begins with a light touch, lapses into gray elaboration, and drags on to repetitive dreariness. Maura Cavanaugh (a Radcliffe History major) embarks on a twenty page slash of Samuel Beckett in a vindictive farce called "Waiting for God." Both satires lack any self-substance beyond the parody. Both blunder on after the comic veneer has worn thin enough to recognize their paucity. And both conveniently ignore or unhappily miss a good deal of their victims' subtleties...
IMPORTS FROM U.S. will be cut by France to curb nation's soaring trade deficit. Rather than reduce nonessential imports from her European neighbors, which threaten to retaliate against French products, France will slash essential imports of coal, oil, machinery from...