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...many Americans-both Democratic and Republican-foreign aid is a painful necessity at best, a downright giveaway at worst. This feeling has encouraged Congress to make a tradition of wielding an ax at presidential foreign aid requests. Last week, President Kennedy asked Congress to appropriate $4.9 billion for foreign aid in fiscal 1963, the biggest aid request since Dwight Eisenhower's $5.1 billion whopper in 1953. Noting that it is "always open season" on foreign aid, Kennedy insisted that the sum was "vital to the interests of the U.S." and "cannot, I believe, be further reduced." But after such...
...press conference, the President hit back at congressional rumblings. Sometimes, he said, those who "want to put the ax to foreign aid hardest are the ones who make the most vigorous speeches against Communism and call for a policy of victory." Anyone not interested in the fight against Communism, added Kennedy, should go ahead and cut the bill...
...basis of your observations, rate the following papers on the basis of the quality and extent of their coverage. Take into consideration their treatment of sports, movies, ax murders, and cheesecake pictures...
...lady of the house looks up to smile a welcome. Her jaw drops. In the doorway stands a domestic disaster. The torso suggests a pup tent full of Jell-0, the hair looks like something dumped out of a vacuum cleaner, the chin resembles the business end of an ax, the eyes slide around like eggs on a plate, the tiny mouth might almost be a third nostril. The legs-it somehow comes as a surprise that there are only two of them-look like snaggled paper clips jabbed into erasers, and when they walk the blubber above them wobbles...
...anything approaching accord. This was mostly because the Bowles shift was something less than a shock. Ever since his near expulsion from State last summer, a close shave widely publicized by Bowles himself (TIME, July 28), most of the nation's papers have been fully prepared for the ax to fall. They wondered only why it took so long...