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...last week's crushing blow, was almost certain to cause snowbound distortions in the seasonal economic figures, move back the expected upturn by as much as a month. Now the Administration needed still more time to examine the economy before moving toward an antirecession tax cut or an all-out public-works program. On March 21, the day Washington had so anxiously awaited, a top Administration economist gazed out a window at the heavy snow. "Give me April," he muttered. "I'd like to borrow April...
...made himself the most useful vice president in history. He has taken six trips abroad as the President's representative, and a Latin American tour is planned for this spring. He presides over both the National Security Council and the Cabinet when Ike is absent. He has consistently gone all-out for Administration programs, even those that are unpopular with large and powerful Republican groups; e.g., Nixon is a leading spokesman for foreign aid and liberalized foreign trade...
Across one-sixth of the world's land surface, the dictatorship of the Soviet proletariat campaigned for re-election last week on a platform of peace, bread, and four more years of all-out effort to "catch up with the West." In snowbound Lettish villages, in orange-scented Georgian watering places, in Uzbek desert oases, the same red-and-white signs marked the local "agitpunkt" campaign headquarters for the 1,364 unopposed candidates running for election to the Supreme Soviet. At rallies everywhere candidates, including the country's top bosses, blared campaign promises as if they really needed...
When Bill Jackson was not up in his C-47 last week, he was busy 1) watching bulldozers break ground for Tokyo's first English-speaking Baptist church, and 2) organizing an all-out evangelical campaign, "the biggest single effort in the history of Baptist foreign missions." Texas-born William Henry Jackson Jr., missionary and active reserve officer in the U.S. Air Force, is planning his $200,000 church with all the U.S. trimmings-kitchens, dining hall, classrooms. As rotating pastors, he hopes to get "big Baptist churchmen" from the U.S. As for his choir, he needs "at least...
...Gaitskell's own statement that "there is no essential physical difference between the launching of missiles, which do not have to be manned, and the launching of bombers with hydrogen bombs, which have to be manned." He added: "If Russia, with her incomparably larger forces, were to launch an all-out attack, then the Western Allies would have the choice of striking back with nuclear weapons or submitting to defeat and occupation." The Victory-for-Socialism Laborites leaped to their feet shouting "Suicide." Sandys replied by quoting the words of Clement Attlee, uttered when he led the Labor Opposition...