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Since the International Monetary Fund outlay will represent $1.4 billion in appropriations whether it is charged to 1959 or 1960, the issue might seem an empty quibble. But it is empty only if the idea of a balanced budget is itself meaningless. The President holds that a 1960 budget balance would be a highly valuable symbol of fiscal soundness, one that could shape the whole U.S. economy. If Congress shifts the IMF appropriation to 1960, it will wreck any hope of a 1960 budget balance-and will destroy the symbol...
...being a village at all. Four years ago, the site was war-ravaged wasteland and the villagers hopeless wanderers. What gave them life was the gift of a 68-year-old Philadelphia lawyer who does not believe in Christmas presents but does believe in President Eisenhower's idea that foreign aid can be on a person-to-person basis...
...trip to India, where another of his mobile health units will be donated-and early next year he plans to go to visit Korea. Says he: "It's amazing how little it costs you to be generous. I don't believe the American people have any idea of how far $10 can go in a foreign country...
...Urals as to the Atlantic. Otherwise," snapped De Gaulle, "what a narrow strip would remain between the River Meuse and the ocean in which to deploy and use the means of the West." In Bonn, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was highly incensed by reports that Britain's idea of an armed freeze was one that would ban nuclear weapons for the West German army. "These British!" snorted Adenauer. "They should learn that they cannot lead the Continent any longer...
This impressive public acceptance comes as no surprise to Mortimer Adler (TIME cover, March 17, 1952), who has never downgraded the human brain, including his own. The column was, in fact, his own idea, proposed last year to Marshall Field Jr., Sun-Times publisher and onetime Adler disciple (in what Adler calls "the Fat Man's class,'' the Great Books course he gives to business executives). Adler's argument was that newspaper readers think: "The American public can understand more than we credit it with...