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...directives as to how the money must be spent. Most of the $1.3 billion authorized for elementary and secondary schools will go to districts with 3% of their student enrollment from families making under $2,000 a year-a qualification that includes 90% of all U.S. school districts. To sweeten the package for some of those who have opposed such bills in the past, the Johnson measure allows private and parochial (largely Catholic) schools to get their own federal funds for books and to "share" whatever new federally purchased public-school facilities are created in their area. A $2.3 billion...
Consolation Prize. Actually, of course, the painting belonged to the Pellerin family, which has already given five Cézannes to the Louvre (which has a total of 26). To sweeten the deal that allowed The Bathers to leave France, the Pellerins gave still another Cézanne, an 1868 portrait of a minor artist, Achille Emperaire, whose name is oddly stencilled on the canvas. Said a Culture Ministry official: "One would say that one was a counterpart to the other." Few Frenchmen were satisfied by what they thought a paltry pre-impressionist consolation prize by a man who laid...
...just one of those silly things," says New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson, who started keeping licorice in his Capitol desk years ago to sweeten up dull debates. "I would give Wayne Morse some. Then Alan Bible would look over and say, 'What are you doing?' and he'd come around. Gaylord Nelson is the smartest. He waits till he sees a hand going into the box, then he'll come over. Mike Mansfield comes around a lot too. The other day, I accused George Smothers of stealing. He said, 'Not only that...
...brasses and the lasses may look the same, but in fact the Army is finding new ways to serve God by serving man. In many of its slum-area chapels, officers still sweeten their fundamental ist, Methodist-derived gospel preaching with soap and soup for half-listening human derelicts. But the Army is rapidly augmenting its brigades in Latin America and Africa, and there finds that the greater need is for cures and classes; today the Army operates 857 schools and 210 medical centers in 86 countries. Affluence has not by any means rendered the Army obsolete. "Even...
...silent movie would have done with the single title "Arabia!"--that is, it sets the scene, and sets the scene, and sets the scene. And not all the perfumes of Alec Guinness, who nattily impersonates the Arab Prince Feisal with obvious and engaging contempt for the whole business, can sweeten the arid piles of camel dung in which he is trapped. It is also good to see Claude Rains back in North Africa, still, as ever, the mysterious servant of a corrupt colonial power. But ditto...