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...publishers and columnists sat back in unsupporting silence, and others have heaped invective on Government spending or, like Publisher John S. Knight (TIME, May 20), even turned the attack into an offensive on Eisenhower foreign policy, Conservative Lawrence, 68, has systematically and unreservedly defended the budget against the meat ax of Congress. Well before the White House itself stirred into belated action to save the budget. Columnist Lawrence was atop the barricade, shouting "Charge...
Hearing the talk, other speakers, notably Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Kennedy and Vice President Nixon, hurried to the Administration's defense, tried to persuade the Chamber to lay down its budget-chopping ax. Nixon pointed out that 60% of the budget goes for national defense, that unprecedented population growth demands increased social spending, that the budget is balanced...
...painting primer called The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, compiled between 1679 and 1701 in a small Nanking house (called the Mustard Seed Garden), broke down brush strokes into 16 different categories. Beginning painters were expected to be proficient in each of them, ranging from "hemp fibers" and "ax cuts" to "horses' teeth" and "sesame seeds." But such variety, when carried out by artists with genius at their brush tips, produced some of the most sophisticated and delightful art objects ever created. Among the Ming masters who succeeded...
...parts-[some] maintenance support . . . has been eliminated, and items have been removed from grant-aid which countries can now pay for themselves." Ike's military-assistance cut was a real concession to the congressional economy spree and a clear effort to forestall whacks with an even heavier meat ax...
...Gross's father was a lumber merchant, and Chaim began his career, appropriately enough, as a sculptor of wood. Among the first sights Sculptor Gross saw in his native Carpathian Mountains were towering forests of firs and pines; among the first sounds he heard were the bite of ax in tree and the screech of sawmills slicing logs into boards. "Smelling the odor of a pine or some other tree," he says today, "I feel like pressing close to its fragrance...