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...afternoon preliminary, the powerful freshman six puts its 13-1 record up against St. Paul's School in what may turn into a goal-scoring spree for the home side
Thrift v. Drift. Capitol Hill Democrats saw quickly that if they started a spending spree they would be opening themselves up to the charge that they had thrown the budget out of kilter. "Dishonest" and "political," cried Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver (see PEOPLE). Pennsylvania's Fair-Dealing Senator Joseph Clark accused Administration leaders of the decade's most difficult athletic feat: "hiding their heads in the sand and running away from the facts." Various other Democrats labeled the budget figures "unrealistic," "dangerous," "phony," "disingenuous," "wishful thinking" and "a bookkeeping exercise...
Only a month after the congressional elections that some pundits called a landslide for liberal spenders and a month before the President's budget message goes to Congress-a key congressional Democrat and a key Administration moneyman laid down similar, tough arguments against a spending spree...
...Frenchmen last week examined the results of their two-week electoral spree, they seemed to have the slightly dismayed air of a finger painter surveying his own handiwork. They knew what they were voting against (the old gang), but were now surprised by what they had voted for. Even Charles de Gaulle himself had not wanted the kind of right-wing majority he got. He had insisted on a single-constituency method of voting that was presumed to favor familiar names (principally the Socialists and Radicals) over a grab bag of unknowns styling themselves Gaullists, some of them able, many...
...hours the five women and seven men on the Nebraska jury struggled with their anguishing problem: what to do with soft-cheeked Caril Ann Fugate, 15, who accompanied bowlegged Badman Charles Starkweather, 19, on a ten-murder spree last spring (TIME, Feb. 10). Had Caril Ann, whose own mother, stepfather and half sister were among the victims, been a willing accomplice, as the prosecution maintained, and as Witness Starkweather, brought to the court from his death cell, testified? Or, as the defense claimed, had she been Starkweather's terrified and unwilling hostage...