Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veterans' pensions in line with the recommendations of a 1956 commission chaired by Five Star General Omar Bradley; let the $500 million-a-year acreage reserve portion of the farm soil bank program lapse without renewal; reduce the federal share of contributions to public assistance payments (e.g., medical care and old-age allotments); and end federal spending in the fields of vocational education and such minor federal programs as water pollution control...
...issued a new code of fund ethics, invoked it last month to oust the teamsters' (TIME, Dec. 16), bakery and laundry workers' unions. In addition, the million-member International Association of Machinists two years ago joined U.S. Industries, Inc. in organizing the Foundation on Employee Health, Medical Care and Welfare Inc. because, says Machinists' President A. J. Hayes, "infinitely more money is being wasted in welfare and pension programs than is being stolen." The foundation has already shown that a welfare fund can save thousands of dollars simply by smarter management, e.g., competitive bidding on health-insurance...
...rest of the budget may get speedy approval, now that Treasury Secretary Humphrey has departed. The only blocks to its quick passage would be a seemingly inadequate defense appropriation or a failure to care for the social legislation endorsed by the Senate Democrats...
Author Barr deals from a carefully stacked deck. His President Pomton spends most of his time buzzing around for money, and doesn't much care where it comes from because "every well-run university has a special washing machine for cleaning dirty money." Pomton's scheming secretary not only writes his speeches but has the final say on his successor when the prexy leaves for what can only be a drearier job. The sociology professor who covets Pomton's job is so tiresome a fellow that his very honesty and earnestness make him seem more a threat...
...Providence has under its special care children, idiots, and the United States of America." This famed remark, attributed to Lord Bryce (The American Commonwealth), was a Briton's backhanded way of saying that the U.S. was a success. With few such perceptive quips but a relentless, mind-clogging avalanche of scholarly quotes, furrow-browed Columnist (New York Post) Max Lerner, 55, says much the same thing in his physically massive (1,036 pages) survey of America as a Civilization. The unavowed note of irony is that, like many a liberal-leftist prodigal son of the age, Lerner, who regularly...