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...Slash rates to increase its freight and passenger traffic an estimated...
...G.O.P. was adamant. By a 239-to-159 vote, with Maine's Margaret Chase Smith the only recalcitrant Republican, the House approved the $6 billion slash and sent it on to the Senate...
...their fifth meet of the season, the Crimson fencers will attempt to slash Cornell from the ranks of the unbeaten at 2 o'clock today in the Indoor Athletic Buildings, while the Yardlings travel to Andover in quest of their fifth victory in six starts...
Porter chalked up his first (minor) success by getting the Government to slash the number of its proliferating ministries from 43 to 15. Mark Ethridge cleared the decks for action by the U.N. commission (which had so far been bogged down in endless, petty testimonies) by obtaining unanimous agreement to limit witnesses' time to one hour, and by sending field teams to the troubled northern border. Greece at last had a coalition Government. The new Premier, in place of Tsaldaris, was frail, ailing ex-Banker Demetrios Maximos, a nonparty ex-royalist. The new Government, promising to review the case...
Divergent opinions were voiced by Democratic leader Rayburn, who said the proposed $6,000,000,000 slash would help push reluctant millions of people abroad "into the arms of Communism," and Rep. Engel (R-Mich), chairman of the Army appropriations subcommittee, who declared that if General Eisenhower and Admiral Nimitz cannot run the army and Navy efficiently on less money they "ought to stop aside and give someone else a chance...