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...cause of Thorneycroft's abrupt departure from the Cabinet was his insistence that government expenditures must be maintained at exactly the same level as last year's. But in the new estimates, expenditures came out almost ?50 million ($140,000,000) higher. This was not because of new extravagances but because standard welfare-state services would cost more. To cut the last ?50 million would mean cutting into such programs as free milk for children and expectant mothers, reducing the family allowances that pay parents $1.12 a week for their second child, $1.40 for each subsequent child...
...President Frank Stanton-Washington Newsman Howard K. Smith charged that Americans are "overcomplacent, overaddicted to comfort, and indifferent to good government." He urged changes in the Pentagon to eliminate interservice chauvinism, called for readiness to negotiate for disarmament, warned: "We must be prepared to make sacrifices, to pay higher taxes, to face controls if necessary to achieve our goals...
...deadlines neared for U.S. morning papers, A.P. aimed even higher, wider and wilder. Said its night lead, still without any confirmation: "Soviet Russia has shot a man-carrying rocket 186 miles into the air and the man parachuted safely back to earth, reliable sources said tonight." The A.P. noted in the third paragraph that there had been "no official announcement whatever," but added: "The official silence-in view of the rumors sweeping Moscow-led to some speculation that ... the manned rocket experiment may not have been a total success...
Easier moneymen argued that the economy needed a lift. Unemployment was still rising (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), notably in Detroit. Auto sales were sliding, and Detroit last week rolled out 18% fewer cars than in the same week of 1957 (but 57% higher than the previous week in 1958). Automakers slashed first-quarter production schedules by 13% from the total projected a few weeks ago. In the slowdown more than 9% of Detroit's work force was idle. General Motors has laid off about 6,000; Chrysler last week passed out 4,000 pink slips and more were coming...
...American prestige "stands higher than ever before" with Allied governments but he "can't say the same for public opinion ... which is somewhat misled...