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Most Congressmen will be grateful for time-saving summaries and data tables that have made it easier to find the phase that interests them most--financial assistance. However, many of the council's proposals will not appeal to their generosity or tempt them to support extension of the NDEA. Many unpalatable recommendations are aimed at education-conscious foundations which have attitudes different from constituent-conscious Congressmen. This conflict has resulted in contradictions which reveal a fundamental uncertainty among members of the National Council themselves...
Peter Sellers is twice as funny as anyone else currently on view, not entirely because his films arrive here two at a time. The latest batch: The Millionairess, Shaw's old joke rejiggered, with Sellers as the Oriental medic and Sophia Loren as the moneypot who tries to tempt him; and Two-Way Stretch, in which the comedian plays a jowly brigand whose plot to steal ?2,000,000 is goofily thickened because he is already in the nick for another...
Peter Sellers is twice as funny as anyone else currently on view, not entirely because his films arrive here two at a time. The latest batch: The Millionairess, Shaw's old joke rejiggered, with Sellers as the Oriental medic and Sophia Loren as the moneypot who tries to tempt him; and Two-Way Stretch, in which the comedian plays a jowly brigand whose plot to steal ?2,000,000 is goofily thickened because he is already in the nick for another...
Treasure Chest. The necklace contained 647 diamonds weighing some 2,800 carats in all, and to duplicate it today would cost $3,855,500-including, Historian Mossiker notes helpfully, the 10% federal excise tax. This grotesque ornament was invented by the crown jewelers to tempt Madame du Barry, who would probably have bought it if her protector, the goatish Louis XV, had not died of smallpox before the diamonds could be assembled. Antoinette, the new Queen, then seemed the ideal purchaser: her husband had the money, and she, possessing a 43½-inch bust, could set off 647 diamonds properly...
Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but, a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction. We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed...