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...toughest language he has aimed at Capitol Hill during his 5½ years in the presidency. Target of the salvo: the defense reorganization bill unanimously reported out by "Uncle Carl" Vinson's House Armed Services Committee. When he first laid eyes on the committee's draft in mid-May, the President dubbed it "progress." But close analysis showed that three Vinson & Co. provisions sliced deep into the substance of the Administration's painstakingly thought-out proposal (TIME, April 14). Ike did a slow burn, then burst out with a ringing summons to the House to override...
...record total of alumni will return to the University to attend their Twenty-fifth Reunion this year if Mid-May enrollment figures are any indication of the final number of graduates who will revisit Cambridge in June...
...strength of the market was based on the health of the economy. The Labor Department reported that employment in mid-May rose by 900,000 to 65.2 million employed. Unemployment, at 2,700,000, was holding stable at last year's level. New plants for new markets had already pushed the construction industry to a five-month total of $19.2 billion, 5% more than in record 1956. Private housing, down 17% so far this year, showed a sharp upturn to an annual rate of 990,000 new housing starts in May, leading hard-pressed builders to hope...
Last week a surprise nominee walked off with the honors. Virginia's budget-dogging Harry Flood Byrd quietly announced that his Senate Finance Committee would begin hearings on "the financial condition of the U.S." by mid-May, would carry out "one of the broadest investigations ever undertaken by Congress." Because the committee already has funds to begin, Byrd asked for no approval, needed none. But he could certainly have got it had he tried. To the Senate, which reveres Harry Byrd as a man who knows fiscal policy as well as he knows Virginia apples, his credentials were eminently...
...Yardling softball season begins next Tuesday, and dormitory tennis tournaments will get under way on the same date. Rowing and track meets will be held in mid-May...