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...came on the $1,375,000,000 housing bill, which Ike had vetoed in his battle to keep the nation's budget in balance. The issue was forced by the Senate's Democratic liberals, desperately anxious to get out from under the President's firm fiscal thumb. In insisting on an attempt to override, they exposed themselves and their party to a needless and humiliating defeat...
...lobby. (Late-arriving employees often enter by way of the diving board.) Station engineers are given to dressing in an ugly, hairy-ape costume and dashing about with another WAPEster in hot pursuit, brandishing a rifle. On calmer days, a costume ape may stalk out to the highway to thumb a ride. Even WAPE's checks are decorated with the simian image-along with a brief message from the keepers: "We will welcome your saving this check as a souvenir instead of cashing...
...began to spread faster. In a three-hour operation last week. Surgeon John R. Orndorff removed an egg-sized lump from his right armpit, as well as the index and little fingers of his hand. Dr. Grubbe had prepared himself for their loss by practicing household chores with his thumb and middle fingers. At week's end he had regained enough strength to renew his campaign for safety measures against the hazards of radiation. Said Martyr Grubbe: "Both Russia and America must stop exploding nuclear bombs immediately. I know what radiation...
...feels that Petronius lived in a style entirely consonant with the wild life of the book. Even Petronius' death was artfully arranged. When palace intrigue involved him in a treason charge, he opened his veins, chatted airily with his friends, recited some light poetry; then, placing a manicured thumb to an elegant nose, he wrote out a definitive list of Nero's bed partners and sent it off to the emperor before he lay back...
...concrete walls. In mock alarm, she enlisted Ike's help, and each reached over the rail with both arms to help fend the 5,769-ton ship away from the abrasive concrete. When the crisis passed, Elizabeth hurried to the side of John Diefenbaker to demonstrate with thumb and forefinger how close the ship had come to scarring its paint. Above the lock Elizabeth and Philip left the ship to> escort Ike and Mamie to their waiting Marine Corps helicopter; 20 minutes later the Eisenhowers were aboard the Columbine III, homeward bound for Washington...