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and charged the engine headon. The engineer said, ‘I admire your courage, but damn your judgment.’ The gentleman from New York is to be commended for the position he has taken, but he and I know what is coming.”

Isn't that marvelous! It was really something. We were there. The final vote came. Only three voices were opposed to this enormous increase of 48 million dollars.

Who were they?

Taber and two friends, that's all.

I'minterested in knowing who the friends were.

We don't know.

Cannon had admitted on the House floor that he did not have the guts to vote against the increase, so at last we saw him take complete defeat on the issue of more money to keep more people alive and prolong the prime of life. He fought us steadily for the last eight years and has never understood anything about the whole matter. It shows how ideas and limitations of one human being can block the progress and limit the lifespan of citizens of a nation and actually of mankind, as what is learned through research is used fairly quickly throughout the