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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Celebrated on New Year's Eve the seventh birthday of his granddaughter Susan, second girl of son and current junior presidential aide Major John. Ike's highlight: helping apple-of-eye grandson David, 10, pick out a $2 cloisonne necklace, a $1 box of stationery, a $1 spelling game for sister Susan. "Well," muttered Ike after peeling the bills out of his pocket, "we did the best we could...
...Leader Lyndon Johnson heads into the opening of the 86th Congress, he has been tabbed by the pundits as a "moderate," whose principal job it will be to rein in the Senate's wild-eyed Democratic "liberals." Such political labels don't fit, says Johnson in the current University of Texas Texas Quarterly: "God made no man so simple or his life so sterile that such experience can be summarized in an adjective ... I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. I am also a liberal, a conservative...
...enormous social security fund (current reserves: $22 billion) really secure between the time the wage earner is nibbled and the time he begins to get his payments? Yes, reported a Congress-created advisory council on social security financing, a panel of 13 businessmen, labor leaders, university professors and insurance actuaries. Their summary: the financing of the Old Age and Survivors' Insurance system is "sound, practical and appropriate...
Bell System's current 500 telephone, designed by Henry Dreyfuss...
...higher than a year ago. Ford stock rose 32 points when it predicted that dealers would add $1 billion to sales by marketing 200,000 to 400,000 more Ford cars in 1959 than in 1958. Ford's new Galaxie series is accounting for one-third of current sales, and the Ford division will increase its January production schedule of these models 15%. General Motors' Cadillac division reported that retail deliveries of Cadillacs in the first 20 days of December set a record. The Pontiac division has already produced 38% of its entire 1958 model year output...