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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family checking account. Said Ike, when asked what cuttable spots he might find in next year's budget: "If you could tell me that, I would have one of my hardest problems solved, because every single department of Government, most of them pleading the responsibilities placed upon them by law. want more money. They quote rising prices...
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...
Before the Southern Governors' Conference in 1951, a bushy-haired, boyish-looking newsman stood up and spoke unpalatable truths. Said he: "We cannot turn our backs upon injustice simply because a black man is its victim. Nor can we find a safe retreat in the sort of legalistic buck-passing that recognizes the existence of an evil but insists it is somebody else's responsibility...
Look Back in Anger has hardly raised the curtain on the frowsiest-looking attic in years than it catapults upon the audience the most blisteringly vituperative character. While his better-born young wife (Mary Ure) bends over an ironing board and his working-class friend (Alan Bates) sprawls over the Sunday papers, Jimmy Porter looses his bilious scorn, like a revolving gun turret, on everything within range: art, religion, radio, Sunday, England and, again and again, his wife and mother-in-law. As minutely venomous as a wasp, as sweepingly violent as a whirlwind, his mockery sauced with self-pity...
...play proceeds, an actress friend of his wife's comes to stay in the house, lashes back at him, and rouses the put-upon pregnant wife to give him the gate. But after the wife leaves Jimmy's bed and ironing board, her friend suddenly takes over both. At the end, despite her being wild about the brute, the friend clears out from a sense of guilt, while the wife, who has had a miscarriage, pleads with him to take her back...