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...works or, as is most likely, a generous combination of both, the price will be a huge budget deficit. With the recession pushing federal spending up and revenue estimates down, a fiscal 1959 deficit of $5 billion or more already looms. Tax cuts or massive new spending could easily mean a red-ink splash of more than $10 billion, biggest since...
...apparently felt obliged to make a dramatic gesture to direct popular attention from the fact that the French have not budged. But scarcely had he delivered his face-saving blast when Tunisian diplomats in Washington hustled around to the State Department to explain that his speech did not really mean what it seemed to mean...
...board. Last week Superintendent Speer turned over his job to the assistant superintendent, who also happens to be supervisor of high school ski instruction. At week's end Pecjak was standing firm on his statement that may have voted for that eligibility thing, but that doesn't mean I feel a C in every subject is necessarily right. You have to have cooperation from the teachers...
Copper producers also think that their customers, who have been liquidating inventories ever since September 1956, may be getting down to empty warehouses. Anaconda Copper Chairman Roy H. Glover reports that inventories are down to the point where any substantial reversal in business trends will mean a sharp pickup for the industry. Says Glover, who notes that all customers now demand immediate delivery: "Many of our very important customers now freely say that their inventories are on the tailgates of our trucks...
Takata. For last week's program on "What Does Orchestration Mean?" Bernstein arrived at Carnegie Hall at 5:45 a.m. with his finished script to rehearse until the performance started at noon. During the concert, bouncy, boyish-looking Lecturer Bernstein roamed the stage with a microphone stuck in his jacket, sometimes sat down at the piano to dash off a musical example. Only occasionally did he indulge in cuteness, as when he spoke of "Grandfather Bassoon" and "Little Sister Piccolo," or explained that orchestration is like "putting clothes on notes...