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Close on the heels of the Joint Chiefs were Budget Director Maurice Stans and Presidential Aide Robert Merriam, who reviewed nonmilitary spending with Ike. Stans also brought bad news: the hopeful forecast of $100 million surplus in fiscal 1960 would likely become a deficit because of the steel strike. "The odds are swinging against a balanced budget this year," said Stans, explaining that strike losses would reappear next year as profits taxable during fiscal 1961. U.S. spending, said he, would be about $81 billion next year-up at least $2 billion over fiscal 1960. Hopefully, receipts would be up enough...
...medieval knight to his chronically sick wife. His son Philip is a senior in high school and is, if anything, a cut above the old block-handsome, kind, courteous, his mother's protector, his school's hero and his minister's pride. Even old Colonel Merriam, his father's boss, sees the boy's virtues, and it seems not unlikely that Philip will cut through social barriers and marry the old man's lovely, city-educated granddaughter. His valedictorian address is ready, full of noble sentiment, for his marks are the best...
Reorganized. Where Adams had only one deputy-Persons-Staff Chief Jerry Persons will have three. Oklahoma City Publisher Bryce Harlow, 42, previously Persons' Capitol Hill assistant, becomes Deputy Assistant to the President for Congressional Affairs; former Chicago Alderman and Republican Mayoralty Candidate Robert Merriam, 40, becomes Deputy Assistant for Interdepartmental Affairs; a third deputy, still to be named, will act as Persons' immediate assistant. Leading prospect: Treasury Undersecretary Fred Scribner of Maine...
Shawnee-Mission High, Merriam...
...meeting such a character, the reader may frequently stop worrying about whodunit, and start wondering who wrote it, for Evelyn Piper is a pen name. Real name: Mrs. Merriam Modell, author of five other novels, e.g., The Sound of Years, and wife of a New York doctor...