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Painting an acute picture of Texas politics, Gonzalez described his struggle to overcome the epithet "liberal" in the special 20th Congressional district election November 4. "Liberalism is equated with all the works of the devil. If you're a liberal, you're a profligate spendthrift or a Red. To say the Word 'A.D.A.' is treason...
Indonesia has been pushed toward economic breakdown by spendthrift use of foreign exchange (down from $300 million in 1960 to an alltime low of $10 million) and a slump in exports that since 1959 has transformed a $300 million trade surplus into an estimated $50 million deficit for last year...
Donald is the disaffected younger son of the land-rich, tax-poor Rodingham clan. His elder brother (Denholm Elliott), an elegant spendthrift who likes to know where his next cobwebby bottle of wine is coming from, plans to sell the 500-year-old family mansion. The buyer (Torin Thatcher) is an upstart real estate operator who likes to tromp on the middle of other people's sentences. But he has a couth and cultured wife (Kim Hunter) who likes to write. Donald writes too and, with a short story contest in view, he helps her work out the mechanics...
...other times in our recent past." Total debt in the U.S. has more than doubled since 1946-but so has the gross national product, whose parallel growth has kept the relationship of total debt to national production about the same. For those who think the Government is the spendthrift, the growth figures contain some surprises. Since World War II, personal and corporate debt in the U.S. has almost quadrupled, soaring from $154 billion to $582 billion. In the same period, federal debt has risen only from $230 billion to $241 billion, and amounts to barely 48% of the gross national...
...evening, homeward-bound functionaries, slipping into buses at 6 p.m., were ordered out and back to work by palace guards. Quadros also ordered an investigation of corruption in five federal agencies-an action that is bound to have a stirring effect on Brazil's politicians of the old spendthrift days...