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...offered remarkably little in the way of specifics. For a nation grown prosperous and comfortable through the eight Eisenhower years (despite recession signs in a number of places), Kennedy's victory presupposed a new willingness to risk much in the '60s. Kennedy's solution to the multibillion-dollar farm scandal-90% price supports -seemed no better than any answer offered before. His welfare programs, despite his reiterated pledge to retain a sound dollar, carried the threat of unbalanced budgets and more inflation at the same time that they strove to satisfy human needs. His pronouncements...
...tenth consecutive year, a U.S. President sent a mutual-security foreign-aid program to Congress, and Dwight Eisenhower's 1960 model had worn and familiar lines. A multibillion-dollar aid program, acknowledged Ike to a moderately hostile Congress, is now "a fixed national policy." And then he requested a budget-rattling $4,175,000,000 for fiscal...
...American, British, French, and West German commission is weighing whether to grant a request by Adenauer that Krupp be allowed to keep his multibillion-dollar interests...
...Cover) When the Soviet Lunik raced past the moon and free of the earth last week, it did more than win a triumph for its designers. It also marked a turning point in the multibillion-year history of the solar system. One of the sun's planets had at last evolved a living creature that could break the chains of its home gravitational field...
...sense, Benson might hurt the policies for which he stands more by staying than leaving. But at the same time, for the Administration to dump Benson would be to dishonor a man who has fought hard and honestly for a policy aimed at ending the nation's scandalous, multibillion-dollar farm giveaway...