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...American people have responded and will respond to the leadership of a political party which evidences a healthy regard for the people's money," said Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson to the Republican platform committee last week. And as a monument to the Eisenhower Administration's healthy regard, Anderson & Co. posted a $1.1 billion surplus for the 1960 fiscal year (closing June 30). By snapping back into the black after 1959's peacetime record deficit of $12.4 billion, the U.S. actually realized a year-to-year improvement of some $13.5 billion, which itself is a record...
...paintings would look askew because of Wright's sloping "continuous floor." Sweeney devised an ingenious way of displaying his unframed canvases on rods projected from the walls. But for all his innovations, he could never get over the feeling that he was running not a museum but a monument to Wright...
...Hebrew Bible is a "monument of logic born of experience," William F. Albright, noted archeologist and historian, asserted at the opening talk of the Thursday afternoon lecture series last week. Albright, W W. Spence Professor of Semitic Languages, Emeritus, at Johns Hopkins University, criticized several theories comparing Greek and Hebrew thought in his attempt to indicate "The Place of the Old Testament in Logical Thinking...
...hard to be indifferent to the information that Justice Felix Frankfurter, 77, expects to die without having been to the top of the Washington Monument, that he was in his B.V.D.s when President Roosevelt phoned the news of his impending appointment to the Supreme Court and that, when he came to the U.S. from Vienna as a boy of eleven, his English was so poor that he once told his parents, "This man Laundry must be a very rich man because he has so many stores...
...Balcony. French Playwright Jean Genet sets this monument of dramatic mockery in a brothel, almost proves his point that there are two main classes of people on earth: whores and their clients...