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...foulups. In defense of his agency, however, Gaud pointed out that in the seven years of its existence, Congress has never seen fit to put AID on a permanent basis, financing it from year to year on an ever-diminishing, hard-fought budget. AID is now operating on the slimmest yearly allowance ever ($1.9 billion). As a result, it has been unable to attract enough qualified personnel. In the wake of AID'S latest trouble, Congress may slash the agency's budget even more savagely than usual next month when Gaud presents the Administration's request...
Harvard's baseball team plays this weekend at Princeton and Columbia--and the Crimson must win both contests to retain more than the slimmest mathematical possibility of repeating as EIBL champions...
...starters were still riding as the tour swung into the final 17-mi. dash for Paris. Anquetil had a bare 14-sec. lead over his closest pursuer, but then bike racing's reigning rajah turned it on and pumped across the finish line for a 55-sec. victory, slimmest margin in the race's 51 years...
...official count yesterday on the referendum to abolish PR was 16,331 against and 15,875 in favor. It was the fourth time that supporters of the Plan E electoral system had beaten their opponents in 20 years. This was also the slimmest margin of victory...
...party leadership. The oldtimers growled, "Let him break his bones on the job." Instead, he built up the Social Christian propaganda apparatus, tightened discipline and led his party in onslaught after onslaught against the Socialists. Those were the long years when no Belgian party could win more than the slimmest majority in Parliament, and the nation fell into a paralyzing attitude of attentisme (wait-and-seeism). In the March elections, both major parties lost ground to extremists of left and right...