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...main chance. Often she would climb up on the knee of a neighbor and beg to be told about the bright lights in the big cities. "She was forever asking me to tell her stories about life in London," recalls the neighbor. "I spent hours telling her about her dreamland...
Straight from Dreamland. To hear New Frontiersmen tell it, the new budget is lean and hard, a direct result of heroic economizing. President Kennedy labeled it "frugal," said it represented the "minimum necessary to meet the essential needs." Defense Secretary Robert McNamara-it was said-had slashed $13 billion from the Army, Navy and Air Force requests; the Budget Bureau and the White House had lopped still another $8 billion or so out of the civilian agencies' budgets...
...despite all this proclaimed austerity, the new budget brought out cries of horror in Congress. Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen called it "incredible," and fellow Republicans in the Senate and House denounced it as "radical," "ridiculous," "morally wrong," and "straight from a dreamland of fiscal fantasy." Missouri's Democratic Representative Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said the budget was "monstrous," predicted that his committee would "find places to cut it substantially." Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright said the budget "seems extraordinarily high." And New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson pronounced the budget "discouraging...
...Democratic state legislature on minor matters. For example, the legislature-for idiotic reasons-refused to accept a gift from the fabulously rich (sugar and cement) Boettcher family. All the Boettchers wanted to do was turn over to the state, for use as the Gov ernor's mansion, their dreamland Denver home, with 23 furnished rooms, a magnificent tooled-leather library, a crystal chandelier that once adorned the White House (in the days of President Taft), and a profusion of priceless tapestries. When the Colorado legislators declined the offer, McNichols went right ahead and accepted...
...Hills office of Ira Haupt & Co., "now I've got 30% less than I had last Friday." A young Chicago couple stared glumly at their living room wall, where a petit point sampler proclaimed "God Bless Fairchild Camera." Across the land, 15 million investors reluctantly emerged from a dreamland of perpetual capital gains and grimly focused their attention on the citadel of U.S. capitalism at Broad and Wall Streets in lower Manhattan...