Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also without qualms was Charley Lupica of Cleveland, who swore that he would sit on a flagpole until the Indians moved into first place in the American League. Last week the Indians were in third place and Charley was still aloft, on a platform fitted out with a television set, a down-filled mattress and a telephone...
...vote of 209 to 151, the House agreed. Greece and Turkey would still get $211 millions; untouched also was the $27 million for Iran, Korea and the Philippines. But of the $1.2 billion ticketed for the Atlantic Treaty nations the House trimmed nearly half. Surplus tanks, artillery and ammunition would account for much of what was left...
...been years since appropriations had been in such a sorry shape. Though the House had whipped through all its major money bills by mid-April, the Senate had dawdled for months, still had $29 billion-almost three-fourths of the budget-to approve. Twice the House had extended the time limit. Last week, after venting its spleen, the House voted another extension rather than risk the alternative : payless paydays for some 2½ million federal employees...
Paunchy, beribboned Presidential Military Aide Harry Vaughan was still ducking the first barrage of dead cats when another came his way. The Senate's investigation of five-percenters (TIME, Aug. 22) last week took up the story of the Allied Molasses Co. of New Jersey. Clumsy Harry Vaughan seemed to be the villain of that tale...
...estimates were close to those made by the New York Times's Will Lissner (TIME, Dec. 29, 1947). Nevertheless, none of his comparisons was likely to give the democratic world any conviction that Russia was politically unstable. In spite of a low IU, the police state still had the means to enforce poverty at home, to concentrate on conquest abroad...