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Eisenhower's beefed-up council will be operating within 60 days under Chairman Burns, but will need funds, probably $300,000 a year, to keep going. A former Columbia University economics professor, Arthur Frank Burns, 49, is a rumpled, pipe-smoking, registered Democrat, who voted for Eisenhower because "my thinking . . . ran pretty much like the thinking of the country." In economics, however, Burns's thoughts follow no particular school. He firmly believes that Government should stay out of the nation's economic affairs as much as possible, interfere only out of "hard necessity." Burns himself knows only...
...desire to imitate it. To finance the industrialization scheme, he bought his farmers' wheat and meat at controlled prices, sold them on the world market for whatever the traffic would bear. Too much of the money ended up in grafters' pockets, uneconomical industries or pipe dreams such as the projects to build atomic bombs and jet fighters. According to government figures, which Perón has been anxious not to make public, Argentine cattle is down from a postwar high of 41 million head to about 27 million...
City Editor Al Reck of the Oakland Tribune (circ. 182,876), who likes nothing better than to beat the San Francisco dai lies across the bay, thought he must be having a pipe dream. State Narcotics Agent Fred Braumoeller had walked into the city room and promised him a beat on a hot story in return for the services of a Tribune photographer...
...historical fact; and, unlike most movie biographies of famous men, it has more than its share of legitimate adventure. But in its writing, direction and acting, it comes out as a too-slick biographical film. Susan Hayward makes a glamorous Mrs. Jackson even when she is smoking a pipe (as she did in real life), and she grows old becomingly. As Jackson, Charlton Heston is as dashing a figure in or out of politics as any moviegoer could wish. Only in the final scenes, when he ages, does he acquire the familiar shaggy, roughhewn look of Old Hickory...
...machine in the medical room of Dillon Field house is indeed the overpowering object. But scattered there, one finds other objects perhaps as fascinating. Old tennis shoes, scales, rules, pamphlets, a red lantern hanging from a steam pipe, a Zimmer skeletal fracture chart, a sign--"office closed Saturdays and Sundays in summer...