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Reserve to Grow On. Ike's emphasis on growth in freedom was no casual afterthought. White House advisers are well aware that the Democrats are starting to take up the refrain that Eisenhower's refusal to expand public spending has retarded the growth rate, when, say the critics, it should be expanding to keep pace with the Soviet Union. Pundit Walter Lippmann took off from the President's message most vehemently, accused the President of putting "private comfort and private consumption ahead of national need . . . The challenge of the Soviet Union," he wrote, "has been demanding...
...Russians are brothers]," cried Voroshilov at the airport, and Nehru gaily clutched the arm of the stalwart lady standing beside him, Mrs. Ekaterina Furtseva, member of the Soviet Communist Party's Presidium. Nehru had worked hard to stir up a welcome that would not compare too unfavorably with Ike's great reception, but Voroshilov's welcome was plainly not so spontaneous. Reason for Nehru's solicitude: he regards Russia as on his side in helping to restrain Peking's ambitions...
...Ike could hardly wait to start hunting. He would be out with a shotgun, he told reporters, just "as soon as they feed me." Right after lunch in Pete Jones's three-story white colonial mansion. Ike turned out in a rust-colored suède jacket over a tan cashmere shirt. In 3½ hours the President's party flushed 26 coveys of quail, and Ike himself, using a 20-gauge automatic shotgun, brought down eight birds. Next day he returned to the hunt, bagged his legal limit of twelve...
...remember this," added Ike. "Secretary Dulles was a very forceful man. He could very well talk about possibilities and ask people about possibilities that might by them be considered as proposals, when they were not meant that...
...biggest demagogic campaign issue of 1960 revolves around the U.S. Treasury and the mandatory 4¼% interest ceiling on all Government bonds of five years or longer. Last year President Eisenhower asked Congress to remove the limitation, imposed in 1918, and Congress turned him down. Last week Ike asked again, and once more a Democratic Congress seems determined to make political capital out of an economic problem...