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...Capitol Hill. Now the Administration faces a need to add at least an extra billion or two for defense. That prospect is all the more complex because 1) the national debt is already scraping the legal debt ceiling ($275 billion), and 2) the 1957 recession will almost certainly shrink the Government's predicted tax returns, will also probably warm up tax-cut sentiments. To arrive at a balanced budget for fiscal 1959, the Administration will somehow have to chop nondefense spending in the face of undiminished public demand for federal services and subsidies; to meet the demand for services...
...Piguet and Lucien Lelong. After the war French Textile Mogul Marcel Boussac backed Dior, and a year later the designer had made fashion history, to remain fashion's tireless (13 hours a day) kingpin ever since, the much-publicized cause of the rise and fall of bosoms, the shrink and stretch of hips, the sight and flight of knees. Often creating while floating in his green marble bathtub, Dior thought much about good business too, opened his wholesaling Christian Dior-New York Inc. in 1948, organized a perfume company, designed cashmeres for Scotland's Hawick looms, bathing suits...
Political Flimflam. The problem pressing upon the Administration is not how to shrink total spending, but how to keep it from ballooning. Reported Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson and Budget Director Percival F. Brundage in a joint statement last week: With fiscal 1958 only three months old, the Administration's spending estimate has edged up from $71.8 billion to $72 billion since the President submitted his budget to Congress last January. With the Government's income estimate for the year down $100 million (principally because of lower business profits), the 1958 surplus shapes up as $1.5 billion instead...
...Killed Dylan? The first to shrink visibly in Caitlin's earth-mothering embrace is Dylan himself: "Dylan used to read to me in bed, in our first, know-nothing, lamb-sappy days; to be more exact, Dylan may have been a skinny, springy lambkin, but I was more like its buxom mother then, and distinctly recollect carrying him across streams under one arm; till the roles were reversed and he blew out and I caved in." Exactly why Dylan "blew out" is a question that has fueled his funeral pyre for the last four years. The argument ranges from...
...elbow of Nikita Khrushchev, as he toured East Germany this summer, appeared a new traveling partner, sallow, stoop-shouldered, scowling. Unlike the previous sidekick, Bulganin, who looked like an amiable riverboat gambler living it up, this saturnine little man seemed to shrink from the speechmaking and the public panoply, the peculiar rites and duties of the proletarian potentates who parade about holding durbars in subject states like 19th century monarchs, while talking over their shoulders to the press like 20th century pols. Yet the world noted, as it was meant to, that wherever the Russians went in East Berlin, Deputy...