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...lopping big chunks off that $72 billion are piling up. New Hampshire's Bridges suggests nicks and slashes adding up to a hefty $3.3 billion. Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, working on his yearly clipped-wing "Byrd budget," promises that he will show Congress how to save at least $5 billion, but has yet to produce the details. The National Association of Manufacturers, whose President Ernest G. Swigert last week damned Ike's budget as "extravagant and inflationary," proposes a massive whack of $6.5 billion. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce calls for cuts totaling $4.2 billion...
After four days of this, India's ailing V. K. Krishna Menon introduced an Algeria-style compromise resolution calling vaguely for negotiations "in accord with the principles ... of the U.N. Charter." Save for Afghanistan and Panama, both of whom abstained, every nation in the U.N. Assembly pounced, 76 to o, on this chance to sweep Cyprus back .under the carpet. "Afghanistan," mused Menon. "Well, they have a somewhat similar quarrel with Pakistan. As for Panama, I guess I was rude to the Panamanian delegate...
...this uniting-Europe mood, the six Prime Ministers also agreed on the establishment of Euratom, a European Atomic Energy Community. A supranational council will hold title to all fissionable materials possessed by the Six. save those reserved for military use. With the aid of the U.S., which has already agreed to supply technical advice and nuclear fuel, Euratom's planners hope to be producing 3.000,000 kw-h of electricity annually by 1963. This would carry Western Europe into the age of atomic power just about as fast as the Soviet Union (whose hoped-for goal...
Eluding South Sea cannibals who are bent on turning brats into Bratwurst, roly-poly Hans and Fritz last week reacted with their usual aplomb. "Vot's mit diss nutty island?" demands black-haired Hans in righteous indignation. Just in time, an utter stranger saves the brothers from certain ingestion. "Only for you," towheaded Fritz thanks their rescuer, "ve vos on der half-shell." And so, as it has since their birth 60 years ago, another bit of nonsense fell off the pen of Cartoonist Rudolph Dirks to save the world's most durable delinquents of the funny page...
Playhouse of Stars (Fri. 9:30 p.m. CBS). The Life You Save, with Gene Kelly in his TV debut...