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...tug of war between Senate and House over how much money to give the National Institutes of Health for the fiscal year just begun (TIME, July 21) the Senate last week got the long end of the rope. With 75% of the funds under both bills earmarked for medical research, the House wanted to up the appropriation to $219 million (from $211 million last year). The Senate wanted to make it $321 million. The conference-approved compromise: $294 million...
...hero (William Holden) is the captain of a British "suicide tug." assigned in the early years of World War II to rescue freighters that have been torpedoed but not sunk in the sea roads that converge on Britain. Guns are in such short supply that the tugs must put to sea unarmed except for some futile pom-poms of antique design. They are sitting ducks for the U-boats that usually lie in wait for rescue parties, and even if a captain should survive the shelling, he is pretty sure to succumb to the inhuman strain of fighting without weapons...
...thing that holds up orders is a tug of war between toolmakers and their customers over price. Since the last general rises in 1956, makers have not changed listed prices. But a lot of secret deals are being made. Said Greenlee Brothers & Co. of Rockford, Ill. (metal and wood working tools): "In the last few weeks we've had more inquiries about orders than in the previous five months. From all the haggling over price, obviously prices are being shaved all around...
...made specially for him by the village blacksmith. Discarding the useless line, he tied his hook to a thin steel wire and sat down on the rocks to wait. Ivica grew drowsy in the warm sun, looped the wire around his leg so that the eel's first tug would awaken him. That evening he did not return home. Ivica's sons found him, floating dead, in shallow water near the reef. The steel line was looped tightly around his leg. On the other end of the line was the eel, a 10-ft.-long, 300-lb. giant...
...performances of the past weekend had many moments of purest comedy and tragedy. The pantomines, at their best, were like a liquid silver which filters through the fingers with a beauty that could be touched and felt, yet not held. For comedy there was "Walking Against the Wind," "Tug of War," and "The Tight Rope Walker." "Youth, Maturity, Old Age, and Death" was justly accorded awe-filled silence by the capacity audiences in Sanders Theater...