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NEWS, Webster might have added, is also reflection-clear second thoughts on current history. A chapter of Cuban history ended the day Dictator Batista fled. Were the facts for an appraisal at hand? Could the course of the new government be predicted? To TIME, Fidel Castro's triumph was a story followed closely from the start. A month after Castro's invasion, TIME reported that "Batista's troops sent to kill the rebels lacked the heart or the ability to do so." In November 1957 a TIME correspondent interviewed Dictator Batista in Havana, met the next...
...Under the impact of these developments, liquidation of inventories should soon end; indeed the gap between current sales and stepped-up production schedules may already have been closed...
...expenditures of $77 billion. That is $5.2 billion more than the amount that, in 1957, moved then-Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey to warn of "a depression that will curl your hair." And it is $3.1 billion more than the President's original budget for the current fiscal year, in which the U.S. is running a gaudy $12.9 billion into the red. In its modest surplus, the 1960 budget picks up the pre-Sputnik, pre-recession trend of Eisenhower budgets...
...could save $28 million a year in draft board administration costs and still keep the services sufficiently strong through volunteer enlistments. In fact, although the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard do not need draftees to maintain their force levels, the Army does: at a current draft rate of 9,000 men a month, 28% of the Army's 804,000-man enlisted personnel is drafted. More important, as McElroy pointed out, the omnipresent threat of selective service "stimulates" young men to volunteer for the service of their own choice. Says a Massachusetts draft-board official...
...events in minor meets. Penny got a job as an interpreter with an Austrian ski manufacturer; Betsy became a fashion model for a German sportswear shop. Penny, a husky, 140-lb. blonde, excels in the downhill; Betsy, whose brown hair is streaked with silver strands to accord with the current vogue for fashion models, is smaller and more nimble, does best in the slalom. They have modeled themselves on the style of Austrian men ("Only the boys have the drive and aggressiveness we want to copy," says Betsy). But having mastered style, both tend to disregard it. Says Penny: "Sometimes...