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Factions and Fractions. There was good reason for disappointment. With Congress on the verge of adjourning, the President at last count had seen only 15.8% of this session's proposals passed, large and small. In 1956 Ike's record stood at 45.7%; in the halcyon days of 1953 it was a whopping 72.7%. There was precedent for this downward trend of the percentages. Harry Truman, battling violently against his final Democratic Congress, managed to push, pull and maneuver through only a fraction of his requests. And Franklin Roosevelt, in his later terms, had to deal with a Democratic...
...government borrowing, currency printing together with the inflation of individual credits urged upon the purchasers of automobiles, TV sets, washing machines, etc., all the way down to travel by banks, manufacturers, merchants and trans portation agencies. When the bubble bursts, 1857, 1873, J893, 1907 and 1929 will look like halcyon days of peace and prosperity...
Mary Baker Eddy was in sight, as we gingerly rounded Halcyon Lake. Squatting close by the shore, her monument was everlastingly protected by tree and shrubs. On the right side, a lady-sized tablet bore a quotation of the Discoverer of Christian Science herself; on the left, a similar tablet, perhaps slightly larger, was inscribed with words of Christ. We immediately rejected any speculation as to who was buried under the latter tablet, on the ground that it would be sacrilegious...
...magazine this week began publishing her serialized autobiography, This Is My Side of the Story, which the duchess contends she wrote all by herself. In her "simple story," the Baltimore-bred duchess, after confessing that "no one has ever accused me of being an intellectual," rolls off into her halcyon childhood memoirs, interspersed with some harsh looks in the mirror. Sample reflection: "Women seem to be divided into two groups-those who reason and those who are forever casting about for reasons for their own lack of reason . . . With the second group . . . I see something more: this has been...
Gone are Harvard's halcyon days, the good and graceful times when its football teams were weak and its joys unathletic. For the tentacles of the Harvard Athletic Association have searched out high school material on which it is glutting itself, and growing. And with the passing of the losing team has come the University's loss of independence from the beak and encroaching paws of the Leviathan H.A.A...