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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vaccine production is ahead of schedule, with an estimated 8,000,000 doses to be available by mid-September, v. previous estimates of 6,000,000. By Jan. 1 there should be 85 million doses, enough to inoculate half the U.S. population, v. earlier hopes for only 60 million by February. Half of the vaccine available by September is now earmarked for the military both home and abroad...
Dwight Eisenhower's problems were different from those of Harry Truman or Franklin Roosevelt. In the 85th Congress, controlling Democrats who were cautious about speaking out against Ike in previous years have spent the session turning him down on such major issues as civil rights, the budget, mutual security, school construction. Their confident unity was simply analyzed: Democrats, since Congress convened last January, have been preparing a record for 1958's congressional elections, beyond that for 1960's presidential campaign. And they early decided that they had little to worry about from a President who in spite...
...want to give them every cent they need," cried Louisiana's Representative Otto Passman, leader of the cut-foreign-aid forces. The Eisenhower Administration, said Passman & Co., already has about $9.5 billion in unspent foreign-aid funds appropriated in previous years-plenty to keep the program going. Democrats could therefore place themselves on the record at one and the same time for economy and for effective foreign aid. The argument worked: the House cut the mutual-assistance appropriation to $3,191,810,000, about $810 million below the Administration's request and $175 million less than the House...
...Chaney? This movie, though taking some drastic liberties with his life, more nearly catches his spirit than any previous try at his biography. The subject was certainly no cinch. The actor liked to assure his rare interviewers: "Between pictures, there is no Lon Chaney.'' In a large sense, that was so. There was no Chaney. but there was a solitary fisherman, a bodkin-eyed amateur movie cameraman, a proficient wigmaker, a talented musician. Hollywood's hungriest reader-and always, the actor testing his disguises. One morning, got up as a Chinese laundryman, Chaney boarded a Los Angeles...
...previous shows, Paar complained on camera about cue mix-ups, improper offstage signals and placement of cameras. Casting a withering glance at a cameraman whose lenses were not quite up to Paar, he smirked: "I have no makeup on my belt buckle tonight." And when one show became a shambles, he ad-libbed: "Friends, aren't you glad you tuned in; we've been rehearsing for nine minutes." Some of Paar's gentle mockery was a replay of old summer material, e.g., his radio-announcer bloopers ("We have just the furniture to seat your nudes"), and reliable...