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...committee authorized a $4.1 billion ceiling; still ahead was the appropriation wrangle), to heed a string of top-priority problems ranging from the Treasury interest ceiling to the appalling farm mess. "We still have a great deal to get done for America," said he. But Democratic congressional leaders, forewarned fortnight ago of Ike's determination to veto big-spending bills, went right ahead setting up fat targets...
...ensure Rhee's re-election as President. Recalled to political office as mayor of Seoul in 1957, Huh was soon fired on the ground that during a U.S. trip, he had offered some mild suggestions for change in Rhee's Korea. When the Seoul riots broke fortnight ago, Huh was in Rhee's black book again as "pro-Japanese." Rhee hates the Japanese, and as head of a commission negotiating South Korea's raft of longstanding diplomatic disputes with Japan, Huh had been more conciliatory than Rhee considered proper...
...study American regional history is to listen to the music of Ferde Grofé. Among his nine schmalzy suites are musical chronicles of the Hudson River, the Mississippi, Death Valley and, most famed of all, the Grand Canyon. Last fortnight Memorialist Grofé. a vigorous 68, got around to San Francisco. Before an audience of proud local citizens, he conducted the première of his golden-gaited San Francisco Suite, tracing the fortunes of the city from gold-rush days to the present...
...ornate palace overlooking surprisingly modern Kuala Lumpur, the nine hereditary sultans of the federated Malayan states met fortnight ago to hold a thoroughly modern election. By secret vote of his peers, Sir Hisamuddin Alam Shah, 61, Sultan of Selangor, was elected to the five-year rotating kingship of independent Malaya, succeeding the late Tuan-ku Abdul Rahman. Gravely, the new king, who once operated a sporting-goods store and now raises rare orchids in his palace gardens, inscribed his name in a silver-bound book. Last week he went before Malaya's democratically elected Parliament to announce some good...
Other farmers were subjected to days of verbal bombardment from loudspeaker trucks parked outside their houses. Gustav Pohl, 60, a farmer near Rostock, had resisted collectivization for five years, but gave in fortnight ago to the agitators. "They told me I could keep one cow and a few chickens and pigs for me and my family. I asked what they meant to give me for my land. They said they did not have any money right now . . ." Quietly, Pohl sent his daughter off to "visit" relatives in West Berlin for Easter, then packed a few things in a net shopping...