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...Board still warns of inflation as the consumer price index keeps climbing (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Yet an equally august body, the President's Council of Economic Advisers, argues that the danger of inflation has passed. Last week in Washington, a single, persistent note began to carry above the hubbub of disagreement. Its message: the greatest economic boom in U.S. history may be starting to show...
...health-conscious Washington buzzed with rumor. Under congressional consideration, but likely to advance nowhere, were proposals for firmly certifying presidential disability and transferring presidential functions to the Vice President (including an Administration recommendation advanced by Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., delegating responsibility for the decision to the Cabinet). The hubbub prompted a blunt question at the President's press conference: Was Ike planning to resign? Replied the President coldly: "The worst rot that I have heard since I have been in this office." There was another subject that was arousing some Eisenhower ire: the budget furor...
Taking note of the hubbub, Moscow's Literary Gazette also came out boldly in favor of nudes, preferably female. "Hypocrites and doctrinaires and art administrators have tried with enviable success to drive this undying motif, which inspired so many great realists, from the sphere of painting in Socialist realism as 'immoral.' Glazunov cannot but be praised for the boldness with which he broke this stupid taboo and brought back to art an earthy delight and poetry of feeling." As a followup, Moscow Radio's English broadcast quoted Critic Anatoly Chlemov deploring the view that "just about...
...hubbub, nobody paid much attention to the Ohio Guard major who told a newsman: "Hell, that's how we recruited them during the Korean war-told them they could stay home longer...
...need not tell you about the rest. You know how congenial, how satisfying the after-game party was, a network of warm friendships, a hubbub of excited, laughing conversations, laced through with the bracing stimulation of hot rum punch. You know also what their dinner was like, the chicken cacciatore, the wine, the one candle filling their flushed faces with flickering figments of fantasy. You know what the play was like, the hurrying into seats, the white furs and black satin lapels, the amiable crowd in the lobby at intermission. But then you don't know what transpired...