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...nation must accept the treaty," said he. But he promptly added: "[It] must, if necessary, be referred to the country." Perhaps the Foreign Minister was merely doing some more weaving through the thickets, but perhaps he was hinting of a national referendum, a new and surefire way to stall the treaty for many more months...
...bureaucracy, an agency chief, a Cabinet member or even the President does not get his way simply by giving orders. Washington has seen many policies handed down from on high that were never put into effect. High-and middle-level bureaucrats can stall, thwart, water down or otherwise sabotage top decisions without any overt act that can be proved insubordinate...
...results have been the development of new instrumentation techniques. Probably the most unique among these is the hot wire aenomometer, a device which measures the velocity of an air stream by measuring the cooling effect of the stream on a hot wire. With this instrument, the phenomenon called rotating stall, where the air flow across a rotor blade is destroyed, was first discovered here...
...dogs at the dog world's No. 1 blue-ribbon event, the Westminster Kennel Club Show at Madison Square Garden. As the defending champion, Storm received the mixture of stares and deference which is the lot of all titleholders. Most of the time Storm stayed in an uncomfortable stall in the Garden basement, loftily ignoring the people who came to look at him. In the ring, he coolly defeated all members of his own breed, then beat a batch of other dogs with which Dobermans are classed in the "working group": boxers, collies, German shepherds, St. Bernards...
...sickening to read the list of Republicans who voted to table the motion and keep civil rights legislation a physical impossibility. Salton-stall, Aiken, Bush and Purtell of Connecticut, Smith of Maine, and Smith of New Jersey are the most shocking...