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Even more meaningful than the overall figures was the fact that Dwight Eisenhower, refusing to bow to the political temptation of tax cutting in an election year, urged that the surplus be applied to the staggering national debt of $284.5 billion. Behind that decision lay the governing philosophy of the Eisenhower Administration: the conviction that a strong domestic economy, based on a sound dollar, is vital to the future of the U.S. and the free world...
...many as 100 small A-bombs on target. A couple of Air Force consolations: the budget gives the go-ahead on increased construction of KC-135 jet tankers, authorizes the purchase of 220 more F-105s for tactical nuclear missions. The Air Force schedules of Dwight Eisenhower's 1961 budget would surely come in for the most criticism...
...Dwight Eisenhower begins his last year in the White House, he admits to a sustaining vision of life at another home: his 192-acre Gettysburg farm, with its promise of relaxed living, carefree hours padding about the yards and fields, and overseeing his herd of black Aberdeen Angus cattle...
Crimson swimmers officially won six of nine individual events, and took the first two places in four of them. Also, Dwight Bissell won the 100-yard freestyle, but was disqualified for missing his third turn...
...find out when the President was planning to hold his meeting with G.O.P. congressional leaders to discuss the Administration's legislative program for the new ses sion of Congress. The answer: "We don't plan to have a meeting, and we don't want one." Dwight Eisenhower saw no need to talk over his program for the congressional session that convenes this week. Reason: he plans no brand-new programs, no departures from the basics he stressed in earlier sessions - balance the budget, fight inflation, uphold foreign aid, resist crash programs. He has decided to hold...