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Required by law to send his fiscal 1958 budget to Congress last January, Dwight Eisenhower soon made it clear that his Administration was still trying to find ways to shave the record-breaking $71.8 billion. Later, after Treasury Secretary George Humphrey set off a clamorous flap by predicting that big budgets would lead to a hair-curling depression, President Eisenhower passed the hot budget potato to Congress, saying that it was the "duty" of Congressmen to cut spending-if they possibly could. The House of Representatives tossed the potato right back with a resolution asking the President to point...
There are very few places he hasn't visited. He has been seen on Boston's newspaper row, and mingling with the seagulls on the city waterfront; he has gotten a shave and a steambath at local establishments; he has been tete-a-tete with Miss Rosita Royce backstage at the Old Howard; he has visited the Russian delegation in New York City; and, in between, he has occasionally been found on top of the Lampoon building at 44 Bow Street...
...whose left hand is pinned beneath the burning taxi was one of the rioters and not the taxi driver. The lucky taxi driver managed to fight his way out of the burning car and later out of the hostile crowd of rioters. I also had a very close shave that day at the same spot. I blundered into that locality in my car. The rioters quickly surrounded me and threatened to burn my car, but I was fortunate enough to get away...
Down at the brave new world of New Haven, athletic Elis have practiced to the drone of slogans designed to remind them of their close shave with the University of Connecticut and their struggle with Columbia...
...year-old Akali Party of bearded, sword-wearing zealots to join the Congress Party. Henceforth, said Masterji Singh, Akali will stick to religious, economic and cultural matters only. His admonition to his Sikhs, traditionally the great warriors of India: "Girdle your loins. Buckle your sword-hilted belts. Shave no more. Visit our temples regularly, and be virile Sikhs again...