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...domestic policy, although he really didn't seem to understand the Taft-Hartley law. Asked about Ike's request for farm editors' help to learn about farm policy, Taft chuckled: "I've been educated for some 15 years on farm policy." Later, he took a swat at the farm editors. "My own opinion of the editors isn't that high," he said...
...Hall, he let fly again: "One of the most cowardly attacks in history . . . Perhaps ... [I] hit some guilty consciences and they yelled to high heaven. I was crucified on the House floor . . ." But the House, apparently confident that it had settled the miscreant's hash with one massive swat, did not seem to hear...
Injuries once again rose up to swat the varsity basketball team down just before an important game. When the Crimson meets Pennsylvania at 8:30 tonight at the Blockhouse, Jim Urdan, Amble Redmond, Alden Davis, and possibly Bob Bramhall will be unable to play. Both Urdan and Bramhall have started several times this year...
Zochariah Chafee, Jr., Langdell Professor of Law, yesterday sharply criticized the proposed Mundt-Nixon Bill for control of subversive activities, saying that using it to check Communists "is like using hammer to swat a wasp on a baby's head...
Bradshaw's drive off the fifth tee landed in the bottom half of a broken bottle lying in the rough. He studied the impossible lie, gulped and selected a niblick. One mighty swat sent glass splinters flying, but the ball trickled only a few feet. That stroke cost him the British Open...