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...debit side, President Eisenhower was especially unhappy with the "unfortunate" requirement that about 5,000,000 bales of Government-held surplus cotton (for which the U.S. originally paid upwards of 32^ a Ib.) be dumped on the world market for, at most, 25^ or 26^ a Ib. This provision forces the U.S. to "follow an inflexible program of cotton export sales with little regard to costs and without adequate regard to the far-reaching economic consequences at home and abroad." It must be administered, said he dryly, "with extreme caution...
...your feet?" Shouted Stevenson: "I'm going to come over there and lay down." A member of Stevenson's entourage murmured: "That's the first time I ever heard you make a grammatical error." Grinned Stevenson, whose Ivy League diction has been counted a political debit by his advisers: "I've got orders to make one grammatical error a day." Orders or no orders, Stevenson was acting like a candidate who enjoyed his role-and his day in San Francisco was one to remember...
This year's drop into the debit column by the University Dining Halls may force an increase in board rates next term, Administrative Vice-President Edward R, Reynolds '15, said yesterday...
...debit side of the Stratton ledger showed some substantial items. He wiped out a Stevenson increase of $8,000,000 a year in truck license fees, an act that his opponents and even some of his friends said was an unmerited reward to trucking interests for supporting him last year. Some Illinois political observers thought that Stratton had also traded away too many of his aims, e.g., reform of the antiquated judicial system, to get his reapportionment bill through. But Stratton insisted that he would fight for judicial reform in the next session of the legislature. Welfare and education leaders...
...there are several entries on the debit side. Too often the show sacrifices the cast's varied comedy talents to dull, sentimental numbers stuck in for change of pace. Because the tone of the revue is irrepressibly comic these interludes are rarely effective. "Nanty Puts Her Hair Up" and June Carroll's "Guess Who I Saw Today" are examples of numbers too delicate to survive their boisterous surrounding...