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When Pope John Paul II first got a glimpse of the Vatican budget in 1979, he was so shocked by its sorry state that he called an unprecedented meeting of * the College of Cardinals. Unfortunately, things have not improved much since then. Last week the Pontiff's budgetmen froze spending at last year's levels throughout the Curia, the body that governs the Roman Catholic Church...
Closing the books on fiscal 1960 this week, U.S. budgetmen reported that the U.S. had snapped back from last year's debt-bloating deficit of $12.4 billion into the black by an estimated $750 million-largely because of the Administration's pressure on all fronts against federal spending. Budget dopesters expect a surplus for fiscal 1961 (beginning July 1) somewhere above $2 billion. Likely final score for the Eisenhower Administration: four surpluses (1956, 1957, 1960, 1961) and four red-ink years (1954, 1955, 1958, 1959). Cumulative total for the eight years: a deficit of some $16 billion...
...their appropriation requests on the notorious "green sheets," and their justifications on white "language sheets." Soon afterward, the Budget offices buzzed with final hearings, as the bureau's examiners delved deep into controversial items. For example, in considering the money request from the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp., Budgetmen asked to see maps of dam locations, asked why one dam was not located at a narrows. Answer: rock formations made construction more costly at the narrows than elsewhere...
...Bronx siding. 2) E. J. Rigney, onetime Independent employe, went on trial, charged with scooping and pocketing from turnstile boxes 500,000 nickels ($25,000) in four years. Mr. Rigney was one of 36 subway employes accused of niching 30,000,000 nickels ($1,500,000). 3) City budgetmen tried to find out why the Transportation Board had awarded an $888,000 signal-system contract to the higher of two bidders...
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