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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reduction is a rather irrevocable step. Once taxes are reduced, it will be difficult to raise them again. Should the present recession prove temporary, we would want to have them back, and fairly promptly. We can't have a deficit in both depression and boom. Life is not yet that wonderful. There are other reasons for favoring public works. Schools and aid to education, research support and facilities, health facilities, urban rental housing, urban redevelopment, resource development, metropolitan communications, are all deficient or lagging. We should first make jobs building the schools...
...Brothers," cried Nasser, "in such affairs it is difficult to produce documents, but this time we have them." As Syria's Intelligence Chief Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj hovered at his side, Nasser dramatically yanked a canceled check from a Manila envelope and shouted: "The first million was paid by Check No. 85902, drawn on the Arab Bank in Riyadh Feb. 20, 1958, payable to bearer and cashed at the Arab Bank branch in Damascus." Bearer, roared Nasser, was Serraj, who, as conscientious as he was vigilant, had accepted the check, then hurried to tell Nasser all about...
...Gaitskell feels it unlikely that much good will come of a summit meeting. But publicly, he finds it both wise and popular to endorse the idea and blame the U.S. for any delay in its realization. "The Americans," he told a television audience last week, "have been a bit difficult about summit talks and what we call taking the peace initiative." With even fewer inhibitions, Aneurin Bevan (the likeliest candidate for Foreign Secretary, should Labor come to power) named the name of Britain's favorite scapegoat, accused Secretary of State John Foster Dulles of spurning an important Soviet "concession...
...Aviation Week, the Aerobee M solves the propulsion problem with five stages of solid-fuel rockets, starting with a cluster of four Aerojet Seniors, which were developed for the Navy's Polaris missile. The initial guidance problem is not solved at all. Instead of attempting the extremely difficult feat of steering the vehicle accurately during its quick spurt through the earth's atmosphere, Aerojet proposes to fire it from a launcher pointed in the general direction of the spot in space where it is expected to meet the moon...
...vitality. After that, Jonas' decline is swift, sure and touching. Dying, he scribbles one word on a blank canvas, but no one can be sure "whether it should be read solitary or solidary" (i.e., at one with society). Moral: wooing the Muse is not half so important, or difficult, as staying married...