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...Cost of Inflation. Quarles expressed far more concern over the cause for the ban, the Government's desperate battle to control soaring defense costs. Expenditures are running $2 billion over the $36 billion budgeted for fiscal 1957 (TIME, May 6) and threaten to wipe out the predicted $1.7 billion budget surplus. So worried is the Defense Department that Wilson also ordered the three services to reduce their buying by $500 million for the rest of fiscal...
...other means, modern civilization requires a man to have an understanding of some of the greater problems of the sciences that may bring his destruction, and a satisfactory means of providing it in Harvard College must be found. The lower-level offering is now adequate, but impending retirements may threaten it soon. The upper-level courses are insufficient...
...gotten out of step with his hair-curling-depression remarks, could hardly have been more pointed. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, an economic conservative by birth, instinct and training, stepped to the firing line with a denunciation of "budget butchers, whose latest proposals go far beyond sound economy and now threaten progress and peace." In the face of the united Administration front, congressional budget-cutting mail was slacking off, and letters supporting the President were beginning to pile...
...Presidential Candidate Louis Déjoie, a rich mulatto businessman, promptly charged that Fignole's candidacy would be "illegal and undemocratic." Fignole's answer was an oblique warning. Said he to his followers: "I ask you people to remain calm- but also to watch everything that may threaten the government. I ask you to respect lives and property-but also to keep your eyes open...
...cardinal knows that Poland's antiStalinist, National Communist regime represents the utmost limit to which Moscow will let Poland go in the direction of freedom. If Poland's passionately anti-Communist people, hoping for a truly democratic government, were to overthrow or even threaten the Gomulka regime, the result would be as sure as shooting was in Hungary last year: the Russians would move in. To prevent this, Wyszynski has wholeheartedly supported Gomulka, has again and again kept the Poles from rioting against the government. Poles of all political shadings, including Communists, agree that it was Wyszynski...