Word: programers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiscal 1959 (July 1 to June 30) last week, and the red ink splattered over a record peacetime deficit of $12.6 billion. Principal reason for the big red year: the now departed recession, which cut tax revenues by $6.2 billion, raised spending by $1.5 billion, for such antirecession programs as higher housing outlays and pump-priming public work projects. Other spending pressures: a $900 million post-Sputnik boost in defense, $1.4 billion turned over to the International Monetary Fund as of July 1 (but charged against the dying fiscal year), a $2.2 billion overbudget outlay for buying the bumper crops...
...guard against spying and subversion in defense plants, the U.S. launched a security clearance program in 1941 that, with modifications, now covers some 3,000,000 workers. Last week the Supreme Court jolted the program to its underpinnings by challenging the right of the Defense Department's Industrial Personnel Security Board to act on the basis of confidential information. In a strong 8-1 decision, the court ducked the constitutional issue but held that neither Congress nor the President had ever authorized a program that denied a suspect the opportunity to confront and cross-examine his accusers...
...narrower ground of authorization. But in an opinion shared by Associate Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, William J. Brennan and Potter Stewart (Justices Felix Frankfurter, John Marshall Harlan and Charles Evans Whittaker wrote a more limited concurrence). Chief Justice Warren seemed to warn that any authorized program that did not contain some provision for confrontation and cross-examination might violate "certain principles relatively immutable in our jurisprudence," i.e., be unconstitutional...
Latest to rise in attack on the leadership of Texan Lyndon Johnson was Louisiana's Russell Long, son of Huey and nephew of Earl. Long had helped Senate liberals sweat through the Senate a proposed tax-cut program (repeal of the 4% forgiveness on dividends, repeal of Korean war excise taxes on travel, telephones, etc.), calculated to impress the voters and embarrass the Administration. Then, before Long's very eyes, the long arms of Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn reached into the meeting of Senate-House conferees to compromise away all that had been fought...
...people of this nation made a very serious decision last November," shouted Long. "They did not expect us to simply sit here and vote for the Eisenhower program . . . However, we are told when we consider these bills that in order to make the bills vetoproof, we must pare them down ... to the point where they have about one-quarter of the significance we intended. As a result the bills are 90% Eisenhower bills and 10% Democratic amendments...