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With Congress gone home for the year, the great Battle of the Budget was over, the last ax blow struck, the last oratorical volley fired. But a postbattle skirmish broke out last week as President Eisenhower disputed congressional estimates of how much Capitol Hill really cut from his hacked-at 1958 budget...
Gamely he tried to roll with each blow in the M.C.'s unctuous volley. The first guest was a Utah farmer who reminded Dempsey that they had sparred as boys. Dempsey stared in blank dismay as the man climbed into the ring, then went into a friendly clinch and clung as if for the bell. Next he was asked to recall the maxim his religious mother taught him. "Go to church and believe in God?" he guessed desperately. "Live by the golden rule and keep goin'," prompted Edwards firmly. "Keep goin'," repeated Dempsey. He kept goin...
...cage went, but outside the courtroom Negro crowds in the street, clubbed by the police, answered with a volley of stones. A few nervous policemen drew their guns and fired into the crowd. At least 20 people were wounded that day and the next; court was nervously adjourned for three weeks...
...Cyprus, where for 2½ years he lived quietly off port with his wife. One day last May three Cypriot laborers came to the hut at Nicosia airport where Corporal Hale worked. They asked for water. A few seconds after taking the glass Hale preferred them, they fired a volley of shots through the window of the hut. Soldiers who heard the shots gave chase, caught two of the Cypriots, found their revolvers on the ground. The third Cypriot was later flushed out of an acacia tree by an R.A.F. helicopter. Paddy Hale was dead, a bullet through his head...
...champions-and until this week Ken had a habit of finishing secondbest. Smooth, fast-paced ground shots may be lovely to look at, but most of the time they add up to little against a booming serve backed by the ability to come up fast and put away a volley...