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...lessen the burden on the economy, federal spending was cut. As it cut expenditures, the Eisenhower Administration cut taxes. Since Jan. 20, 1953, a total of $7.4 billion has been pared off the federal tax bill. But the Administration has failed to realize a long-held Republican aim: it has not balanced the budget...
...over Diem's downfall. After the embarrassing failure of the attempt to unseat the Premier, the French government has assured the United States that it intends to support Diem, for the moment at least. But it did so with an evident absence of enthusiasm which may increase, rather than lessen the probability of another crisis in South Viet Nam. Apparently the "French presence" in Indochina is to be preserved even at the cost of heightened chaos in a country that has known nothing but turmoil in the past few years...
...tavern owners and bartenders expected slight effect on business from yesterday's Senate vote to enact a bill providing fines of $10 to $100 for minors who purchase alcoholic beverages. One prominent tavern owner said that although some minors might be discouraged from purchasing drinks, "lax police enforcement" would lessen the bill's effect...
...Congress should pass new laws to 1) curb union activities that lessen competition "to the extent that such commercial restraints [are] not effectively curbed," and 2) set the statute of limitations at four years (instead of the present one to ten years) for antitrust suits...
...currencies over a three-year period. The Agriculture Department, buried to the eyes in its surpluses, wanted to use up all the authority in the first year, then go back to Congress for more authority; the State Department, however, wanted the program carried out in equal annual installments, to lessen the effect on world markets. President Eisenhower finally stepped in with a compromise solution: $453 piillion in the first year. The State Department wants most of the foreign-currency deals made in such key cold-war areas as India, Pakistan and Japan; Agriculture, on the other hand, wants to make...