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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With bipartisan support behind him, Smathers last week breached the Administration's previously undentable no-tax-cut line. By sturdy majorities, the Senate nailed the Smathers amendments to the House-passed Administration bill to extend for another year, at present rates, the corporation and excise taxes scheduled to shrink on July 1. But that was all the tax trimming the Senate did. It voted down a flurry of tax-cut proposals, passed the Smathers-nicked Administration bill with nary an audible nay. Ahead this week: a House-Senate conference to decide whether the House, which approved a hold...
...Senate, illustrating the swiftness with which hot political issues sizzle up and then subside in Washington, passed a bill creating a new space agency by voice vote with only a third of its members present. Under its terms, space research and space projects programing would be planned by a seven-man board consisting of a new space director, the Secretaries of State and Defense, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and representatives of three other agencies interested in astronautics (not more than one of them in the Defense Department). The measure now goes to conference to iron out differences...
...many Americans agreed with Robertson that the U.S. exhibit was a 'hodgepodge devoid of any recognizable theme. The British exhibit, for example, contrasted the symbols of Britain's imperial past with her present progress in science and technology; the Dutch exhibit showed how a thrifty nation wrested land from the sea to become a prosperous agricultural and seafaring power; the Israel exhibit showed how a hardy breed of men created a nation in the desert after centuries of persecution; and even the boastful Russians blended exhibits of Sputnik, industrial machinery and imitative consumer goods to overplay the Soviets...
Adventure in Partnership. In the House of Commons, Harold Macmillan announced the British offer. Stating Britain's "obligation . . . to give a firm and clear lead out of the present deadlock." he offered an "adventure in partnership." Declared Macmillan: "Cyprus should enjoy the advantages of association not only with the United Kingdom, but also with Greece and Turkey...
...with such tradition-shattering flamboyance as the duke. On the 3,000 acres of Woburn Park, just 40 miles from London, and in the gold-and-damask rooms of Woburn Abbey, things go on these days that would have made the first twelve Dukes of Bedford shudder. His present Grace has turned the place into a sort of Disneyland-with a degree of success that has made him both the target and the envy of all those engaged in what his duchess calls "the stately-homes racket...