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...below) were well roughed out before the President left Washington for his work-and-rest vacation (highlighted by granddaughter Susan's sixth birthday and a quiet New Year's Eve gathering with the John Eisenhowers, the Jim Hagertys, Farm Manager Arthur Nevins and Mrs. Nevins). But, as usual, there were final details to be decided. To Gettysburg came couriers carrying freshly typed drafts; back they sped to Washington, with here and there a penciled Eisenhower notation. Occasionally along the road the couriers passed higher-level visitors inbound to the farm. The week's first: Secretary of Health...
FOREIGN AID. The Administration will ask just under $4 billion for continued foreign economic aid ($3.4 billion this fiscal year), is bracing for the usual anti-aid blasts. Last week came the first blast. Louisiana's Congressman Otto E. Passman, Democratic chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Aid, charged that a State Department report on how Russia is spending $1.9 billion worth of foreign aid in underdeveloped nations (see FOREIGN NEWS) was released to scare Congress into upping...
...most interesting of the lot is the fanatic British colonel, all of whose actions stem from one trait: conscientiousness carried to the point of mania. Alec Guinness plays him with deft stiffness. His torture scenes are appropriately ghastly, and he resists the temptation to clown. William Holden gives his usual performance as a soldier who escapes from the prison camp and returns to blow up the bridge. Jack Hawkins and Geoffrey Horne are his fellow commandoes, Sessue Hayakawa is the blustering Japanese commandant, and all of them are unexceptionable...
Thank you for your Dec. 16 report on the happenings in Indonesia. As usual, the facts are admirably presented, although the occurrence is a tragic...
...earth affects the percentage of solar energy that is bounced back into space. A satellite equipped with proper instruments could measure incoming and outgoing energy, thereby help weathermen to predict as much as a year ahead whether a season is apt to be warmer or colder than usual...