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Each year, as Congress winds up its work, West Virginia's Bible-quoting Senator Matthew Neely denounces what he calls "the scourge of senatorial verbosity." Last week aging Democrat Neely came out from behind the three-foot piles of Congressional Records on his Senate desk and reported that in 155 days this year, Congress had filled 21,484 pages with an estimated 31,946,708 words at a printing cost of $1,842,140. Ten Senators (unnamed) had supplied half the words...
Next day, in the playoff, Hogan, the Mechanical Man, blew a piddling, three-foot putt on the 16th. He never recovered. For the third time, by a margin of one stroke in 90 holes, Sam Snead was Master of the Masters...
Last week, in the sleepy Bavarian town of Freiburg, the city fathers unveiled a three-foot marble statue of a drake, neck arched to the sky and bill at full quack...
...family party at his mother's and a big welcome from the citizens of Berkeley. At week's end, Dean got off a cable to Syngman Rhee, asking clemency for the two South Koreans under indictment for betraying him to the Communists, and began to answer a three-foot stack of mail-most of it from parents of soldiers still listed as missing in action. For the hero of Taejon, it was the end of a long and harrowing journey...
There were cheers from thousands, and Orangemen toasted their Queen's coming in gallons of frothy stout, the national elixir. The Queen and husband Philip spent the night at Government House, watched the traditional lambeg drummers lambasting their three-foot drums with ferocious, stout-filled glee. Eventually, they gave Elizabeth a headache, and Sir Basil Brooke, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, popped his head outside to ask them to desist. They did, but said goodnight by playfully clouting him with their caps...