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...last week the President drove to Walter Reed Army Hospital to attend the swearing-in of Foster Dulles as a new $20,000-a-year special consultant to the President with full Cabinet rank. Because Dulles tires easily, the small group at the ceremony-Ike, Dulles, Nixon, Herter, Janet Dulles and a few others-sat down while the President read to Dulles this citation: "Your willingness to continue to contribute your abundant talents and unique experience to the service of the U.S. and the free world is but one more example of your magnificent spirit and devotion to the nation...
Proposed for a $20,000-a-year job as a director of the Tennessee Valley Authority by President Eisenhower: Arkansas' former Democratic Congressman Brooks Hays, 60, defeated last November in his bid for re-election by an eleventh-hour write-in vote of Little Rock school segregationists, hastily mobilized to squelch Moderate Hays and his gradualism...
...Chief Nardone did not quite meet TV specifications. Before he knew what had happened, Tommaso Ponzi, private eye, found himself charged with impersonating an officer, violation of domicile, restraint of person and arbitrary arrest. Tom's suspects, who had admitted to being part of an estimated $500,000-a-year ring, walked out of the station free men-because the police themselves had not caught them red-handed as the law requires...
Among advocates of more federal spending, the figure 5% has become a sort of magic number of yearly economic growth. "Our economy," says Walter Reuther, "should be expanding, at the very least, at a rate of 5% a year." Average yearly rate since the 1870s: 3%. In their swelling stack of pamphlets, proponents of 5%-a-year growth do not argue the realism of their goal in hard economic terms. As authority for it, they point out that last spring a Rockefeller Brothers Fund panel, sprinkled with big businessmen, urged a 5% growth rate...
...cast reflections on Congress, announced son Steven was taking a pay cut to $6,402. Publicly the House applauded; privately its members were hopping mad. So much bad publicity had been churned up by the Carters that a pending proposal to provide Congressmen with $14,000-a-year administrative assistants was in trouble...