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...headlines against one another than for technological superiority over the Russians. Said Gardner: "We have presently at least nine ballistic-missile programs, all competing for roughly the same kind of facilities, the same kind of brains, the same kind of engines and the same public attention." Among the loudest of the critics were members of the 85th Congress, condemning the Administration for skimping on defense spending-yet it was that same Democratic 85th Congress that overrode the President's urgent public pleas and cut the U.S. defense budget by some $2 billion...
...storm showed promise of being the most serious that Dwight Eisenhower had ever faced. The President had backed both the defense budget and the missile program, but the loudest noise in the defense area in recent weeks had been made by Charlie Wilson genially hacking away at military expenditures that he had let get out of hand. Militarily, Sputnik, plus Khrushchev's bold rocket-rattling, gave a bald warning about the grim missile race to come. Beyond all this, the President was bound to bear the brunt of a special American reaction: the U.S. takes deep pride...
...repairman's biggest, loudest beef of all is directed squarely at his meal ticket-the appliance-owning U.S. public. "The public has more chiselers and stupid jerks in it than any place else," says an angry Pittsburgh appliance dealer. "Everyone wants a bargain, but when the cut-rate, $100 TV set goes fizzle and the repairman's bill comes to $25, the customer refuses to pay." Manufacturers are partly to blame; while the auto owner has learned by long experience to expect occasional repairs, few appliancemakers emphasize the question of service. Even so, say repairmen, the public usually...
Third Party? In the South, furious Democrats first lashed at Ike, then almost as quickly at their Northern cousins. One of the loudest spokesmen was South Carolina's jaded Jimmy Byrnes. Attorney General Brownell had pushed Ike into action, Byrnes said, because Brownell was frightened by "the high command of the national Democratic Party" and its attacks on the President's do-nothing attitude. In the high command he identified National Chairman Paul Butler, Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, New York's Governor Averell Harriman and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams. "Goaded" by these Democrats...
Possibly the loudest and zaniest radio station in the U.S. is Pittsburgh's WILY, which tailors its programing and advertising to a Negro audience. This week WILY will die-of an overabundance of success-and in its place will arise station WEEP. There will be some program changes, occasionally some subdued music, and commercials beamed to a general audience. But for the most part, WILY fans will not be disappointed in WEEP. Announcers will still bray crazy commercials; odd-voiced groups will yell the lyrics to Chicken Baby Chicken, Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On, and assorted other...