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...word was usually enough to get Eisenhower, defense specialist, almost anything out of Congress that he wanted. But when Congress jibbed a bit, the President said he could accept a $1.3 billion "bookkeeping" cut. Then Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson found out that he could cut service manpower and lop off $200 million more. Back of the Battle of the Budget a second word got around that Eisenhower himself was dissatisfied with the rate of defense spending-that Charlie Wilson had let Pentagon spending get away from him. "Charlie just lost control," said one spokesman in the know. "He lost...
Railroadmen who try to lop off money-losing spur lines that no longer are really needed often have to run through months or years of hearings. The Chesapeake & Ohio, for example, consistently failed to get permission to discontinue a train that averaged only a handful of passengers daily. Finally the principal objector admitted that he did not ride the train himself; he just liked to set his watch by the train's noon whistle. Regulatory agencies know that every road has similar lines that should be eliminated so that the money saved could be used to improve service elsewhere...
...last . . . And if the two people love one another and marry, and if they have a happy family, isn't that what counts?" The week's bulletins on honeymooning Playwright Arthur Miller and Cinemac tress Marilyn Monroe: ¶ In Washington, the House, by a lop sided roll-call vote of 373 to 9, cited left-leaning Miller for contempt of Con gress for his refusal to unclam about form er Red buddies before the Un-American Activities Committee...
...finger and called himself Ba Cut. In protest against the Geneva conference that split Viet Nam, he refused to cut his hair. Refusing also to recognize the sovereignty of the new nation of South Viet Nam, he terrorized the back country, declared he would lop off the head of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. But last April Diem's army captured the rebel general, and the problem of whose head would roll was posed another...
...Department an extra $1.1 billion for the Air Force-which the Administration, after arduous consideration, had decided it did not need. At the same time, but by no means the result of erratic happenstance-the Senate Democratic leaders, again urged on by bipartisan rank-and-filers, seemed determined to lop $1.1 billion off the foreign-aid program-a cut which the Administration, after painful consideration, had decided would be next to disastrous (TIME, June...