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...Appropriated $2,790,824,816 for foreign aid, after adopting a $200 million slash put forward by South Carolina's Burnet Maybank. The Senate's total is $100 million below the House appropriation, $264 million below the program authorization, $648 million below the President's request...
...battle developing on public housing. Within three hours after the Administration's housing bill was reported out by the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, South Carolina's Democratic Senator Burnet Maybank, long a champion of public housing, introduced an amendment to wipe out all provisions for public housing. Reason: Maybank is furious about last week's Supreme Court decision (TIME, May 31) prohibiting racial segregation in a California public-housing project...
When General Matthew B. Ridgway, the Army's Chief of Staff, sat down before the Senate Military Appropriations Subcommittee one day last week, South Carolina's Democratic Senator Burnet R. Maybank was ready with a question: Was Ridgway "satisfied" with the new defense budget, which increased funds for the Air Force, reduced expenditures for the Army? Paratrooper Ridgway hedged, hesitated and then gave his answer: "When a career military officer receives from proper authority a decision ... he accepts that decision as a sound one, and he does his utmost within his available means to carry it out." Nevertheless...
...would be a grave error, the Australian researcher warns, to believe that because man has some fancy new drugs the bugs will lie down and take it. Not only disease-causing germs but diseases themselves are constantly evolving. So, says Burnet, while it is right and necessary to give antibiotics to protect a patient for a short time against a specific hazard, they must not be used indiscriminately or indefinitely. Reason: it is impossible to be sure that the germs cannot develop resistance to the drug, and if they do, they may become the dominant forms of their type, much...
...moving into a new world," says Burnet, who did much to open a new world of virus research (TIME, Dec. 8), "and we must be always alert to look beyond the immediate effect of some new procedure to see what the logical outcome of its large-scale use will be. Antibacterial drugs, like measures to prevent the spread of infection or immunization procedures, are potent weapons, but to the biologist they are merely new factors . . . [among] which the microorganisms of infection must struggle to survive. We must never underestimate the potentialities of our enemies...