Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were far from over-in fact, they had scarcely begun. At his press conference last week, Dwight Eisenhower spoke of budget problems in the harried tone of a head of household who finds himself, soon after payday, with $365 in overdue bills and $165 in the family checking account. Said Ike, when asked what cuttable spots he might find in next year's budget: "If you could tell me that, I would have one of my hardest problems solved, because every single department of Government, most of them pleading the responsibilities placed upon them by law. want more money...
...well-worn path through Congress could also be a path into the unknown. After some behind-scenes grumbling by Russia, directors of the fledgling IAEA, meeting in Vienna, elected Cole their first director-general with a probable salary of $20,000 a year and a $10,000 expense account...
Medical History. Much of the third and final volume of Analyst Jones's painstakingly researched, lovingly written biography* is taken up with an extraordinary account of Freud's illness and its effects on his last years. The effects, never before described in such detail, were painful, profound and sometimes bizarre...
Aside from lack of money, the deprivation that most troubled Freud in postwar Vienna involved cigars. Imported ones were unobtainable in near-bankrupt Austria, so visiting analysts smuggled them in. Though he knew that his jaw cancer might have been caused by smoking, Freud would not quit on that account. With his shrunken tissues and "the monster" interfering, he sometimes had to pry his mouth open with a clothespin to get the cigar in. Even so, he enjoyed up to four a day. At one time, when he had heart trouble marked by anginal pain, he quit smoking and boasted...
Clearly, the Marxist-materialist bosses of Hunan's "people's government" are afraid of ghosts-or of a restless undercurrent of anti-Communism that has resulted in a China-wide crackdown against dissenters of all kinds. At first, ran the Peking account, Taoists Li Kwei-ying (a woman) and Chiang Chang-en were given eight-year sentences. They received death sentences only after Hunan's "masses protested against too light punishment...