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...hocked for the price of a hot meal, the tank-town prelims, the main events when they got their turns on the big time. Ex-Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano does even better. In his autobiography, Somebody Up There Likes Me (Simon & Schuster; $3.95), written with the help of Newsman Rowland Barber, Rocky even recalls the eye-gouging, gut-punching details of his childhood street scraps, the first wild rounds of his private bout with the world...
FEDERAL COMPETITION with business will be cut under new orders of Budget Director Rowland Hughes. All Government agencies have been ordered to discontinue all possible competitive businesses costing more than $5,000 annually and "to refrain from starting commercial activities which might be competitive with private business...
...Balance in Sight. But considerable progress had been made. In a 1,324-page document drafted by Budget Director Rowland Hughes, the Eisenhower Administration proposed total expenditures of $62.4 billion during fiscal 1956 (beginning next July 1), $1.1 billion less than estimated spending for this year, and $11.9 billion below Harry Truman's final year...
...spun by a Stakhanovite spider. One-and two-car trains jog across the countryside as leisurely and erratically as the village gossip on her daily rounds. Except on the crack trains, cars are dirty, creaky, ramshackle and old, though also comfortable in a musty, antimacassar way. Cartoonist Rowland Emett has epitomized both Britain's love and loathing in Punch's "FarTwittering and Oysterperch Railway." But these rachitic sinews manfully bore the baggage of war. When the railroads were nationalized by the Socialists in 1948, the equipment was overaged, the labor force (at the unions' insistence) oversized...
...George Humphrey's critics like to think that his idea of heaven is an enormous mass of carefully audited ledgers, in each of which income exactly balances outgo. As far as a balanced federal budget is concerned, Humphrey is still far from heaven. Last week, with Budget Director Rowland Hughes, he held one of his rare press conferences, to explain new budget estimates for fiscal 1955, and spent most of his time parrying pointed questions from reporters...