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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inflation's other front, the fight for a balanced U.S. budget for fiscal 1961, disputes were rumbling that only the President could settle. The Pentagon was crying that U.S. defensive strength will suffer if the Administration insists on holding spending to the $41 billion level of the current fiscal year. In fighting against the outflow of dollars to foreign countries, the Administration was studying a possible cut in foreign aid and a revision of trade policies, with an eye toward shaping a new foreign economic policy that would hold the free world together...
...demanding work-rules changes to increase efficiency, the steel companies had a strong case to make. And the steelworkers, for their part, had never been a union dedicated to featherbedding. By trying to make the changes in a sweeping manner, the steelmen had solidified labor into a newly militant front and lost much public support. Like many a controversy based on principle, the differences were far more apparent than substantial, might well yield to settlement if both sides would make the most of a cooling-off period to try a new approach...
...Cover) Behind wailing police sirens, a cream-colored Cadillac sped into Abbeville, La. from the dusty airport, rolled on past the white-columned courthouse, and pulled up in front of the Candlelight Restaurant. Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington unfolded his long (6 ft. 2 in., 183 lbs.), well-tailored frame from a rear seat and, ringed by Louisiana politicos, strode inside to start shaking hands. As photographers flashed away, Abbeville's Mayor Roy Theriot bounced forward to get his picture taken with Symington and Louisiana's own Senator Allen Ellender. "I'm going to pose with...
Next morning every front page in Paris headlined Mitterrand's escape, and most praised his coolness. A longtime ally of ex-Premier Mendès-France and ten times a Cabinet minister under the Fourth Republic, brilliant Franç Mitterrand was regarded by many of his colleagues as overambitious and opportunistic, but few doubted his basic honesty. Yet why attack Mitterrand? As a member of the ineffectual left-wing opposition, he had had no voice in shaping De Gaulle's Algerian policy. The attacks suggested that France's frustrated rightists were capable of anything. The government offered...
...buddy! Fall down!" called a sportsman from the row behind, as Lucius tried to determine exactly where it was he belonged. Understanding the situation at once, Lucius steadied himself and determined to stick it out. He turned to the drinker seated in front...