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...varsity tennis team enjoyed one of its most successful southern trips in recent years, as it swept all seven of its matches from the University of North Carolina, Duke, Navy, the Byrd Park Tennis Association, and the Country Club of Virginia...
...varsity also downed the Country Club of Virginia, 8 to 1, and topped the Byrd Park Tennis Association...
Last week Humphrey stuck to his taxes-are-too-high theme when he appeared before Harry Byrd's Senate Finance Committee, although he was urging the Senators to extend corporation income taxes at their current rates (30% on the first $25,000 and 52% on the rest), instead of permitting them to drop as scheduled on April 1. Humphrey argued that holding the present rates is the only way to balance the budget; the committee, including Chairman Byrd, duly supported his view. Said Humphrey with genuine earnestness: "What we need, and what we need badly, in this country...
Counterpoint. To other members of the Cabinet, Secretary Humphrey's repeated rumbles about the need for economy sound less tuneful than they sound to Senator Byrd. Most of them apparently believe that their departmental budgets are tight. Secretary Mitchell defends every dollar in the Labor Department's $418 million budget. Health. Education and Welfare Secretary Folsom is fighting hard for the endangered $451 million school-aid program. Last week Postmaster General Summerfield reported that his estimate of the 1958 Post Office deficit had swelled rather than shrunk since January. Secretary Benson gloomily announced that he saw "no alternative...
Even with Humphrey lending congressional cutters aid and comfort, the total cuts in the budget will certainly be a lot less than Byrd's $6.5 billion, proving again the old rule that the snap of Congress' scissors is sharper than the snip. Foreign aid seems sure to be slashed unless the President comes to its rescue. But on the domestic front, indiscriminate congressional pork-barreling, logrolling, and horse-trading are almost certain to add some unnecessary fat, partly making up for whatever fat-and lean-is trimmed...