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DEBT-CEILING RISE, above "temporary" limit of $288 billion, will be requested of Congress again this year, Treasury Secretary Anderson says. President expects debt will swell to $285 billion at year's end, and "there will be a substantial temporary increase during the year," which will necessitate rise in ceiling...
...payoff to keep them submissive if not content. By tying the vote on autonomy for France's Black African territories to the vote on his proposed constitution, he obliged right-wingers to swallow his liberal colonial policy, at the same time picked up 9,000,000 African votes to swell his majority in the constitutional referendum. By showing himself willing to offer Algeria's Moslem rebels something besides naked force, and by taking the gamble of extending the constitutional referendum to Algeria, he reconciled many left-wingers to his tighter, more disciplined constitution, added another 3,500,000 Algerian votes...
...tells a tall story about a short boy (Russ Tamblyn), but in the film the Grimm realities -which were tiresomely unimaginative anyway-have undergone all sorts of pleasant Palliations. There is a marvelously mushy love story, goofed up just enough to give several million adult-dominated wider-twelves a swell chance to hoot and cackle at the well-known foolishness of their self-styled superiors. There is a sackful of the usual peculiar but amusing Pal puppets. There is one of the jolliest holler songs (The Talented Shoes) since Whistle While You Work. There is some smart choreography...
...Dutch Author Dermoût was 67 when she wrote her first novel. Locale: a strange world she intimately knew-the islands of Indonesia. Curious, bathed in memory and completely original, the book merges white and native existence in beautiful language, washes against the senses like an insistent tropical swell...
...William Holden): "Ge, kid, I don't want you to worry about losing your virginity. We'll just be affectionate, but not passionate. You're swell (nibbles...