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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YOUR "NEW MILLIONAIRES" ARTICLE [DEC. 27], BUT AM DESPERATELY ANXIOUS YOUR READERS KNOW THAT I NEITHER APPRAISE THE FAMILY PURSE NOR MAKE PUBLIC PRONOUNCEMENT AS TO ITS DIMENSIONS [TIME'S appraisal: $50 million]. MY FRIENDS SHUN ME AND MY ENGLISH PROFESSOR TURNS OVER IN HIS GRAVE AT THE SIGHT OF THAT AWFUL QUOTE "I'VE GOT SO MANY BUCKS TO PROVE...
...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...
Moscow's Pravda last week reported that in New England's factory towns the people could not find "meat, butter or even margarine" in the stores. This was the usual Pravda flimflam, but bedeviled Ezra Benson could almost wish it true. No end is in sight for the flow of surplus food stimulated by the Government's farm price support program...
...Vorkuta, each camp is surrounded by a twelve-foot-high barbed-wire fence. Inside the fence is a prohibited zone within which the guards in the towers shoot at sight. There are powerful arc lamps every 10 or 15 yards along the wire and during the long hours of winter darkness the prohibited zone is as bright as day. Beyond the camp is the tundra, where guards sit in camouflaged dugouts scanning the undulating landscape with field glasses, and slow-flying biplanes circle looking for suspicious movement. The Komi receive a reward for every escaped prisoner they hand over...
When Dame Edith half sings her short, glittering lines, intones her long, prayer-like ones, many a listener feels the shivers induced by the delivery of the great actresses. Now that Dylan Thomas is gone, hers is the" most startling sight-and-sound presence in English or U.S. poetry...