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...headed for inflation, he reaffirmed an earlier statement backing the Federal Reserve Board's decision to raise interest rates to member banks although the President's own administrators opposed the decision (see BUSINESS). In an off-the-cuff opinion, he suggested that Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen's proposal to limit income taxes to a 25% ceiling might get the Government into "a very rigid fix." He revealed that he had persuaded retiring NATO Commander General Alfred Gruenther not to retire "for a long time, but I couldn't do it forever...
...adds up to a national average of $1.50 a bushel, 10? above the previously announced level, but 8? below last year. Nevertheless, many corn farmers seem to be pleased. At a Senate Republican Policy Committee meeting last week, a colleague turned to corn-growing Illinois' corn-saying Everett Dirksen and cracked: "Ev, it looks as if Benson, of all people in the world, just re-elected...
...Bricker Amendment failed of Senate adoption by a single vote. Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee, voting n to 2, approved and sent to the Senate for action this year a new proposed treaty amendment to the Constitution. Its sponsor of record: Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen. Its actual author: able Lawyer John Bricker...
...amendments thought they saw a danger in the three words, "any provision of." The test of a treaty's validity, they argued, should be in the Constitution as an organic whole instead of in its separate sections. Said Missouri's Democratic Senator Thomas C. Hennings: "Under the Dirksen substitute, a provision of the Constitution could be torn from its context and used as the sole test of a treaty's validity. Furthermore, the proposed amendment would seem to apply to all existing as well as future treaties...
...Calista Schneidau (a mother of six), delivered her little speech ("We've watched the performance of your Administration for three years and, sir, even in Texas we've never seen anything so good") so neatly and devotedly that in Chicago Dick Nixon leaned over to Senator Dirksen and whispered: "Ev, let's run that girl for something...