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...period is the longest in which the U.S. ever operated in the red. The infant republic broke about even on deficits and surpluses from 1789 to 1800. Thereafter, Treasury spokesman Albert Gallatin, a strong advocate of high taxes to cut public debt, got it into the habit of trying to stay in the black. The U.S. has managed surpluses in 95 of its 158 years, but has never been entirely out of debt. Lowest point of the national debt was $37,513 (in 1835); the peak was $279.2 billion (Feb. 28, 1946). Current national debt: $258 billion...
...Habit. In Doncaster, England, nine-year-old George Cole, discharged from a hospital after treatment for a broken arm, plunged happily into a cricket match, landed back in the hospital a few hours later with a fractured skull...
...Keynote. Yet an air of solid habit had begun to pervade U.N.'s halls. Faces grew familiar. Delegates had learned their way to conference rooms, bars and washrooms. Recently, when an ultra-orthodox Moslem member of the Egyptian delegation spread his prayer rug just off the press bar, nobody paid any attention (except a helpful British journalist who told the Moslem which way was east...
...ECOSOC (Economic & Social Council) was riding off in all directions. Its Narcotic Drugs Commission discussed the establishment of a commission to investigate the effects of the coca leaf-chewing habit, prevalent in some Latin American countries. Its Committee on One Day's Pay Proposal was proposing a committee to propose that all the world's citizens donate one day's pay for needy mothers & children. ECOSOC has 17 other commissions and subcommissions...
Chief of Criminal Police Georges Clot recalled that Houdard had been in the Maquis. "He had to live off the land; that meant that often he did things that were not exactly legal. He doesn't seem to have gotten out of the habit...