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WASHINGTON, May 8--The House Education Committee voted overwhelmingly today to whack half a billion dollars from the school construction bill, in hopes of getting the program through an economy-minded Congress...
...President jabbed at congressional critics of his budget: "I must say it is a very great satisfaction to me to find out there are so many economy-minded people in Washington. They didn't use to be here." He followed up with the hardest whack at Congress that he has ever dealt in public: "But now let's-if anyone is interested in economy, let's go to the things that are open for all to see. Take ... the ... great number of public works that are authorized without proper engineering studies to back them up. Congress authorizes...
...earlier discussions of congressional maneuvers to whack into his spending plans, Eisenhower has been more restrained...
...yearly clipped-wing "Byrd budget," promises that he will show Congress how to save at least $5 billion, but has yet to produce the details. The National Association of Manufacturers, whose President Ernest G. Swigert last week damned Ike's budget as "extravagant and inflationary," proposes a massive whack of $6.5 billion. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce calls for cuts totaling $4.2 billion, and is still looking for soft spots. Chamber President John S. Coleman contends that a slash of at least $5 billion is "absolutely essential...
...flivver strip"), Caccia said that he would deliver a case of whisky if they could land a twin-engined plane there, added: "You pay the funeral expenses." The Russians dropped the complaint. Speaks French, German, Italian, Greek and a little Mandarin Chinese, likes shooting and tennis, sometimes takes a whack at cricket...