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...average citizen, the federal budget is as unintelligible as a careless housewife's checkbook. It also baffles experts. The Hoover Commission, after a long look, called it "an inadequate document, poorly organized and improperly designed." Yet even with recent improvements, the method of computing the budget makes it hard to talk about Government finances and make sense. For example, the Administration expects a budget deficit of $3.8 billion in the current fiscal year; yet also hopes its cash income will fall short of outgo by only $500 million...
...Director Hoover...
...Iran, Secretary of State Dulles sent an oil engineer, Herbert Hoover Jr., 50, son of the ex-President, to sound out prospects for a settlement of the British-Iranian oil wrangle. Hoover himself will not do any negotiating. His assignment is to look, listen and report back to Dulles...
...presentation trouble goes right up to the top. At his press conferences, the President himself is friendly, at ease and no longer worried about questions that reporters might ask, though he has held only 15 press conferences. (In the first year of office, Truman had 42, Roosevelt 102 and Hoover 23.) But his announcements are made flatly, with little elaboration. Newsmen who try to question him are often good-naturedly, but nonetheless firmly, brushed aside. As a result, their reports are often confusing. Fortnight ago, after Ike was questioned on balancing the budget, the New York Times headlined...
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