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After the Weather Bureau predicts a seven-day heat wave, a revised forecast that the torrid spell will last only six days seems good news of a sort. In that not-as-bad-as-we-expected sense, President Kennedy had some good budget news to announce last week. Only "a few hours ago," he told reporters at his press conference, the Treasury sent him word that the budget deficit for fiscal 1963 (which ended June 30) was only $6.2 billion. That is another hefty deficit to run up in peacetime, but, as Kennedy pointed out with pride...
...other business of the seven-day assembly, the commissioners...
...austere and frugal man, who shuns Santiago's chandeliered La Moneda palace for a bachelor apartment and walks to work each morning, it was quite a whirl. In the U.S. last week for a seven-day official visit, Chile's Businessman-President Jorge Alessandri, 66, was whisked into a helicopter after ceremonies at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, plunked down an hour later on the White House lawn. An honor guard snapped to attention, 21 guns roared a salute in the freezing air, and President Kennedy stepped forward with words of friendship and welcome. Then came a round...
Sears's and Ward's travel prices are no lower than most; their appeal is convenience and installment buying-$6 per month for eleven months for a seven-day jaunt to Miami, $126 a month for 24 months for a junket to Japan, Hong Kong, Manila, Thailand, India and Egypt...
Behind this startling success is a wiry, hard-driving civilian named H. Sam Priest, who is president of the city's police board. Though his job is only part time (and pays only $1,000 a year), Priest, 56, spends almost half of a seven-day work week on police matters, devotes the rest of his time to his other job as president of the Automobile Club of Missouri. His successful innovations...