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...Congress, Easter is a time for rest after the first labors of the new year. For wise Congressmen the long Easter recess is also a time for clearing the head of Washington's political vapors and finding out what is in the minds of the folks back home. In 1958 the Easter recess served a key purpose: in Washington, the temptation to fight recession with a spending spree had been almost overwhelming. But when the Congressmen got home at Easter, they discovered to their general astonishment that there was little sentiment for wild pump-priming. That discovery shaped much...
...heavens are going to fall. If we appropriate a dollar above their request, it's reckless and radical spending." The Democratic 86th, said Rayburn, is going to use its own judgment about spending "from here on out." And what that judgment may be will probably depend on the Easter pulse-taking...
From his farm, Ike made trips to town for Good Friday services at the First Methodist Church and Easter Sunday services at Gettysburg Presbyterian Church, inspected his Aberdeen Angus, worked over speeches scheduled this week before the NATO ministers in Washington and a Gettysburg College convocation. This week, the holiday over, he planned to return to the White House after the annual Easter-egg roll. There, he would dig in to face a returning Congress and the crises which have become almost part of an average day's work...
...This Easter week, in a custom 438 years old, elderly men and women will trudge up the creaky staircase to the auditor's office to pay their annual rent. It is one of the world's real housing bargains. The annual rent is still what Jakob Fugger decreed it to be 400 years ago: the equivalent of one Rhenish guilder...
...China, thus earning Washington's warm approval. He coolly denied strife-torn Newfoundland (TIME, March 23) the lavish federal aid that the province wants (leading Liberal Premier Joseph Smallwood to cry "betrayal'' and drape provincial buildings in crape). Then, as the House droned toward Easter recess, weary John Diefenbaker caught a Saskatchewan-bound jet transport for a few days off on the anniversary of his monumental election victory a year ago this week...