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With his Treasury Secretary still an unchallenged hero to the budget cutters (see box, p. 24), even President Eisenhower seemed at times to be wandering. Fortnight ago he finally spoke up firmly in defense of the budget, but G.O.P. leaders on Capitol Hill were spreading the word that he was reconciled to a cut of well over $1 billion. The Administration's leadership had already confused one House Republican to the point of complaining: "The President lays out his program and lets it sit there. Sometimes, with one Cabinet member saying one thing and still another Cabinet member saying...
...George Humphrey struck out on his own. If long-range expenditures are not reduced, Humphrey predicted, the nation will see "a depression that will curl your hair, because we are just taking too much money out of this economy that we need to make jobs." On television a fortnight later, Humphrey expressed confidence that the budget could indeed be cut and that" "if we can make a sufficient reduction now, then we would be in a position to reduce taxes a year from...
...really solid strength of NATO: the commitment by 15 nations, backed by U.S. nuclear power, to regard an attack upon one as an attack upon all. Europe's confidence in that commitment remained strong and sure-as testified by the resolute calm with which Denmark and Norway fortnight ago, and The Netherlands last week, met Bulganin's dark threats of H-bombs...
...Domingo Perón in a recent interview. Last week in Venezuela, the former Argentine dictator was wholeheartedly making trouble for his successors in spite of his distance. Reflecting his wishes, Peronistas in Buenos Aires renewed their sabotage campaign, setting off ten bombs and starting three fires in a fortnight...
Cuts in Parsons. The Katy had faced a similar situation in Parsons. Kans., where it closed one of its offices a fortnight ago, also tried to move out at night. Hearing of the move, the Kansas attorney general enjoined Katy from shipping its records out of the state, took the road to court charging violation of an old agreement under which it promised to keep at least 347 office employees in Parsons. By shutting down the Parsons office and firing other employees, Deramus had chopped his Parsons work force from 1,300 employees on Jan. 1 to about 800 last...