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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly everybody but Robert Anderson, a balanced 1960 budget seemed a hopeless undertaking. Over the prosperous Eisenhower years, the Administration had achieved a budget surplus only twice, in fiscal 1956 and 1957 (see chart), despite all the balanced-budget promises of the 1952 campaign. With the 1959 budget a gaudy $12.5 billion in the red, and the economy still convalescing from the recession, sober heads in the Administration argued for aiming toward a practical goal, e.g., holding the 1960 deficit down to a few billion...
Such nondurable goods as clothing, food and gasoline still account for two-thirds of the consumer's purchases, reached a sales total of $12 billion in October. Bigger gains have been run up in the durable field (see chart), where October sales hit $6.3 billion, up 17% over last year and nearly 10% over September. The durables got a hefty boost in October from soaring sales of Detroit's 1960 auto models, will probably level off this month because of a shortage of cars caused by the steel strike...
Career. The nerve chart of a stagestruck ex-soldier who goes from cliché to cliche, saved by Anthony Franciosa's tingling performance...
...research, however, will start with the Class of 1964. After pinpointing the psychological variables this year, the members of the project will choose a sample group from '64 and follow them through four years at Harvard. By means of tests, interviews, and the like, the researchers hope to chart the changes in each individual...
...financing at competitive rates in the short-term market, to which private borrowers are turning in increasing numbers to get their money. The Treasury has thus sopped up billions-and within a year forced up the rates on short-term loans to nearly double their previous level (see chart). "The Secretary of the Treasury doesn't want a printing press [for money] in his office," says Alexander, "but the practical effect of the rate ceiling may be to put one there...