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...President's goal, as Democrats found out in reading the mail from their constituents, proved to be astonishingly popular. In doing what he thought best for the nation's economic health, Dwight Eisenhower apparently was giving the people just what they wanted...
...spending tastes of his party's enlarged liberal wing. He gave it top priority when the 86th Congress convened in January, threw aside the President's modest request for a six-year, $1.6 billion program, hammered a $2.6 billion plan through the Senate by early February. Then Dwight Eisenhower's budget battle began to take hold, and the companion House bill, delayed until mid-May, was cut to $2.1 billion. Most of the House cuts were kept in Senate-House conference, but the "omnibus"' bill sent to the President last fortnight still looked to the White...
Caviar. In Moscow's Mayakovskaya Square, 30 Yale students on a determined good-will expedition sang songs, answered questions about the U.S. in serviceable Ivy League Russian. Over at the usually solemn Tchaikovsky Conservatory, two members of the Yale group, U.S. Jazzmen Dwight Mitchell (piano) and Willie Ruff (bass), fractured a cheering, stomping crowd of Russians. In Manhattan, customers waited in long lines to buy tickets for the Russian Music and Dance Festival, scheduled to open this week at Madison Square Garden...
...Russians play the game for the propaganda value, i.e., one picture of a grinning Frol Kozlov toasting a grinning Dwight Eisenhower cannot help taking the heart out of would-be satellite rebels. Moreover, the Russians want credits and trade to build up their industrial strength. And while they talk peace, they make it clear in closed-door sessions that peace means a world where there is no opposition to their threats and bullying...
...weekend familiarity with burnt sienna and chrome yellow, Sunday Painter Dwight Eisenhower is an uneasy critic of other people's artistic output-especially when it includes political undertones. Last week at the presidential press conference, Maine Newshen May Craig asked Ike's opinion of the art section of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, which is, somewhat belatedly, being scrutinized by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (34 of the 67 artists represented, the committee charged, "have records of affiliations with Communist fronts and causes"). Ike's answer was rough going...