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Diary of an Early American Boy, by Eric Sloane. An account of the day-to-day life of a 15-year-old (circa 1800) who spent his time brewing butternut ink and learning how to build a house without nails, with the author demonstrating just how everything was done...
Diary of an Early American Boy, by Eric Sloane. An account of the day-to-day life of a 15-year-old (circa 1800) who spent his time brewing butternut ink and learning how to build a house without nails, with the author demonstrating just how everything was done...
Last week President Kennedy unwrapped his budget for fiscal 1964 (beginning next July), and lo, it called for more spending than ever. It had more of almost everything than the current budget-including red ink. Total expenditures: $98.8 billion, up some $4.5 billion from the current fiscal year, and $500 million more than the Government paid out in the peak spending year of World War II. Indicated deficit: $11.9 billion. Only a fraction of that deficit is attributable to the tax cuts that the President called for in his State of the Union message delivered earlier last week. Assuming that...
...stated figures were not bad enough, most Congressmen recognized that Presidents are traditionally and notoriously overoptimistic in estimating the size of budget deficits. Missouri's Cannon complained on the floor of the House that over the past nine years the Administration budgetmakers have underestimated the red ink by a net total of $37.5 billion. "They were feasting on the delights of sweet anticipation," growled Cannon. "But now we are gnawing on the cold corncob of stern reality." For example, only a year ago Kennedy submitted a 1963 budget indicating a surplus of $500 million; that wishful bit of black...
...small furniture-shop owner, Bolt followed the scholarship route to university, cleaned latrines for the R.A.F., and was a totally unhappy schoolteacher before turning to writing. By any definition a concerned man, Bolt has been jailed for his ban-the-bomb convictions and argues, "Much ink, perhaps some blood, will flow before we arrive at a genuinely modern and credible vision of what a human person is. But I think any artist not in some way engaged upon that task might as well pack up and go home...