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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sudden flood was apparently enthusiasm for his bold effort to sweep aside the cold war's barriers by trading visits with Soviet Premier Khrushchev. The chatter about the New Eisenhower came during an Ike week that was dramatic in several other ways. The President was in his usual top form at his press conference, held in a converted Gettysburg gymnasium. On Capitol Hill, an attempt to override an Eisenhower veto of an inflated housing bill failed miserably and all but nailed down a victory for Ike in his long, steady fight to balance the U.S. budget. After the year...
...legislative leaders and henchmen. Ole Earl's own reaction was another clue. Rushing half-shaved from his barber's chair to the skyscraper state capitol, he arrived just as the adjournment vote was being tallied, made a speech which was a startling departure from his usual profane tirades (TIME, June 15). "I ain't mad at anybody," Ole Earl purred. "If that's the way you like it, I don't know what else I can do. Go home, think it over, and let your conscience be your guide. Thank you, good luck...
Like a miler awaiting the starter's gun, Western Europe got set for Dwight Eisenhower's arrival-that is, the ministers and their swordbearers got set. As usual in August, the holidays had so depleted the supply of natives in Paris and Rome that tourists were reduced to staring at each other...
...hard to tell how much of Red China's agricultural troubles were political, how much natural. But obviously, the disaster reports were one way to prepare Red China's 650 million for food shortages this winter. The 1959 crop yields are reported sharply below normal; the usual propaganda boasts of "record harvests in China's great leap forward" are notably missing this summer, and a People's Daily editorial growls that "an inclination to avoid hardship has found breeding ground among some cadres"-leading outside experts to suspect that many farm communes are failing to meet...
...July to 153% of the 1947-49 average, two points below the record June level of 155%. But activity in most other durable-goods industries increased, and output of nondurable goods reached new highs in July. Last week Radio Corp. of America announced it had cut its usual two-week plant vacations in half to keep up with orders for TV sets, transistor radios and stereo equipment...