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Although the Administration had worried through Congress a barely adequate $3,367,000,000 (about $500 million less than the Administration had originally requested) mutual-aid authorization bill, a whole new set of distress signals began flapping around the White House early in the week. In the legislative wonderland, "authorization" is a far cry from actual appropriations, and White House liaison men reported that a House appropriations subcommittee was about to slash foreign aid even below the authorization total. Ike was disturbed. "This is no lighthearted matter," he told associates. "The very integrity, the very safety of the U.S. rests...
...good voice," he says. Within a matter of months he also bested Mike Wallace on Night Beat, played the bean peddler in TV's Jack and the Beanstalk, made some records with Bea Lillie, played all the parts in a recording of Alice in Wonderland, recorded Peter and the Wolf with the Philadelphia Orchestra, did several benefits and filled various speaking engagements. "I simply drift around like flotsam and jetsam," he says with creaks and squeaks in his voice, his sad, pale eyes playing out of a square, pinkish face...
...California, there was a grown-up heady boy named Walt Disney who set out to create the happiest place on earth. So he went into his countinghouses and to his moneylenders, and he collected millions of dollars. Then he ordered his royal artists and carpenters to build a whimsical wonderland of spaceships to the moon and Mark Twain river boats, of mechanical monkeys and bobbing hippos, of moated castles, wilderness forts and make-believe jungles. All the children, young and old, came to visit this happy place, called Disneyland. And Walt and his friends made millions happily ever after...
Irving (The Fabulous Originals) Wallace uses these lines from Alice in Wonderland as foreword to his studies of nine Americans of the March hare species. Wallace's fondness for just-this-side-of-the-nuthouse characters began in adolescence, when Wilbur Glenn Voliva, onetime high prophet of Zion City, Ill., personally assured him that the earth was shaped like a saucer and the sky ''a solid dome." Wallace concedes that Voliva's own dome was probably far from solid, but he argues that Voliva stood for ''the human freedom to be different...
...Yourself. Once inside the U.S. dome, the Poles were confronted with an outlay of consumer goods as inviting as a mirage in Wonderland-the output of 323 different manufacturers. There were hi-fi radios, sewing machines with pretty demonstrators to show how they worked, a whopping big jukebox blaring out the latest in rock 'n' roll, washers, driers, electric ranges, electric can openers, a continuous fashion show with girls modeling U.S. ready-to-wear dresses at $20 and under. Out in the back of the model house was a home workshop stuffed with power tools which none...