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Missiles & Planes. Defense expenditures of $39.8 billion account for a whacking 54% of the budget. Atop that, the budget includes a $500 million defense contingency fund, to be spent as the President sees fit, so the real defense total is $40.3 billion, up $2.7 billion from the pre-Sputnik level. Missile procurement is listed for $600 million more, but aircraft procurement for $600 million less. Also up: nuclear submarines, research and development, construction of Strategic Air Command bases...
...enemy countermeasures. The Army is meanwhile well along on the experimental Nike Hercules, a more sophisticated, solid-fuel missile with an atomic warhead. And the Army is also developing a specialty item, Raytheon's solid-fuel Hawk, designed to meet attack by enemy bombers scooping in at low level beneath U.S. radar...
...cause of Thorneycroft's abrupt departure from the Cabinet was his insistence that government expenditures must be maintained at exactly the same level as last year's. But in the new estimates, expenditures came out almost ?50 million ($140,000,000) higher. This was not because of new extravagances but because standard welfare-state services would cost more. To cut the last ?50 million would mean cutting into such programs as free milk for children and expectant mothers, reducing the family allowances that pay parents $1.12 a week for their second child, $1.40 for each subsequent child...
Arguing that typed exams would considerably reduce their work load, and at the same time put all students on an equal competitive level, almost every tutor reached in a random check strongly favored the use of typewriters...
...start in both the mile and the one thousand yard races, while Liles will compete in the broad jump, an event he won in last summer's Oxford-Cambridge meet. Middle-distance man Art Cahn and jumper Bob Downes will also be making their first starts at the varsity level...