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...Thorn Patch Uprooted. Democratic Whip Mansfield had gradually focused his gaze on the best issue the Democrats had: the debatable constitutionality of the word "authorized" in the first half of the resolution. Eisenhower and Dulles insisted that the word was needed to show the world that Congress stands firmly behind the President. But thoughtful Senators on both sides of the aisle began to wonder whether adoption of "authorized" might throw doubt upon the President's implied power as Commander in Chief to use armed forces to safeguard the nation's security. This doubt, the reasoning ran, might deter...
...years the chief Okinawan thorn in the U.S. side has been an emaciated little man with a jet-black mustache and eyes that glare from behind thick spectacles. He is Kamejiro Senaga, the 49-year-old chief of the Okinawa People's Party. The party's principal plank was opposition to U.S. requisitioning of land for military purposes, which over the years has resulted in the seizure of one-fifth of Okinawa's arable land and the dispossession of 50,000 Okinawans. In a low, mild voice, Senaga called the U.S. occupation authorities "criminals, murderers, rapists, arsonists...
Kroll frankly admits that "the nude studies might have shocked the ladies if they had been alive" (only one of them is: handsome, octogenarian Mrs. De Courcy Wright Thorn of Baltimore), but he points out, "That way I could capture the movement of the body better, the fall of the legs and breasts." For Kroll, who holds that "the human body is the most beautiful thing in the world," painting clothes on the nudes was the reluctant, if necessary, next step. The finished painting shows half an instep, no ankle. The result turned the bacchanal into a proper tea party...
...Simple Solution. As a forceful and outspoken member of Kenya's legislative council, he was a constant thorn in the side of Colonial Office authority, inveighing now against the menace of the growing Indian community, now against softness in treatment of the blacks, now against the excessive pomp of the colonial governor himself. Instead of wasting money on a swank new government house, young Grogan told testy old Governor Sir Edward Grigg, he ought to be made "to live in a tent." The governor soon thereafter curtailed his original ambitious building plans...
...Jackson (Thorn Mt.)--Good to excellent upper, fair to good lower...