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...Democrats on Capitol Hill set out to force the Atomic Energy Commission to do their bidding. Their target was the Dixon-Yates power contract (TIME, Nov. 8), up for consideration before the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. They could not prevent the signing of the contract, but they did threaten to nullify it next year. Announced Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson: "We expect that . . . the Dixon-Yates thing can be given a quiet burial...
...others, and to put your children to work. If you do not, your taxes are raised. You learn to be enthusiastic. If you are not, they will whisper from mouth to mouth in your village that you want to be rich, that you are a reactionary. They will threaten you with public discussion. They will isolate you: you will find that your neighbors will not dare speak to you. If this does not teach you joy, they will assign you work that will kill you. And it is never the Communists who do any of these things...
Only once during the entire contest did the defense-minded Crimson even threaten to score. The first half ended as the Yardlings brought the ball down to the Eli six-yard line...
Normally as peaceable as a lullaby, Brubeck has been known to come off the bandstand in the middle of a number and threaten to silence a noisy customer with his muscular hands, which, until a few years ago, were expert at roping cattle. But it has been quite a while since he has been forced to such extremes with audiences. Nowadays, people listen...
...take courses in law and psychology before earning their deputy's badge from the sheriff. Though they turn some cases (e.g., truancy and dope peddling) over to other authorities, their own quarry includes every one from the little boy who steals ice cream to the crackpot who might threaten to shoot the superintendent...