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...Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, chairman of the Senate preparedness subcommittee, gave his in a scathing report that deliveries of planes, tanks and radar sets are 30% to 70% behind schedule. The reason, says Texan Johnson, is that "we didn't have the courage to put guns ahead of butter ... to put the cause of liberty ahead of the pursuit of luxury...
...Guns v. Butter?" Senator Johnson has performed an important service in disclosing how badly production is lagging behind schedule. When Wilson says that production is nearly up to schedule, he means schedules that have been revised downward very sharply from the program he accepted with confidence when he took office a year ago. Commenting on the Johnson report, Defense Secretary Robert Lovett last week called it "a darned good report ... a good statement... of where we are now-not how we got there...
...week, music piped in for 15 minutes of every hour, a cafeteria with low-priced good food. (There used to be a free mid-morning snack of milk and vitamin-enriched peanut-butter sandwiches, but the staff began to look like sofas.) On the walls of individual offices, and in the corridors, hang paintings by such modern masters as Renoir, Braque and Chagall. "My God!" cried an astounded visitor. "Is this a place of business or a girls' seminary...
Aircraft builders, blame the lag on the Administration's reluctance to disrupt the civilian economy, say that the Government will have to get a lot tougher on civilian production before things get any better. Judged by plane production, the Administration plan to have both guns and butter is working out all to the advantage of butter...
Then one morning, Dr. Itten spotted a newspaper notice of the death of Titus Kammerer, host to Nikolai Lenin during his exile in Switzerland. Hastening to the bereaved home, Itten struck a bargain with Kammerer's son for a tea glass, a strainer and two butter knives, the only mementos left behind by Russia's revolutionary deity. Itten completed the deal just as a Soviet delegation drove...