Word: wonderlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nice to hope that this will have an effect on Congressional reactions to the budget, but basically this Alice-in-Wonderland approach to government has gone too far. No one with a realistic knowledge of Congress would ever ask that body to cut a budget--it's perfectly happy to carve up any measures but the Rivers and Harbors bill without special invitation. And the disorganization within the Administration about how much the government needed to spend was comical only when it concerned Ike's helicopters. Otherwise it was frightening...
...solution of the issue, on terms which hot-headed Negro leaders had rejected four weeks before, was as simple and satisfactory as the caucus race in Alice in Wonderland; i.e., everybody won. The government-subsidized bus company, which started the trouble by upping its fare from fourpence to fivepence, would go on collecting the higher fare. The thousands of Negro bus riders, commuting from the segregated locations outside the city, would continue to ride for the old price by the simple process of paying fourpence for coupons exchangeable for a fivepenny bus ticket. The difference would be taken care...
Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Alice in Wonderland...
Triumph on Turtleback. Vicky, a refugee from Naziism, landed in Britain 21 years ago. He spoke no English, faced an even more formidable obstacle for a car toonist: he was baffled by British humor. By reading and rereading Alice in Wonderland, he rode (as one colleague says) to "his conquest of Fleet Street on the back of the Mock Turtle." In 1941, Alice-sized (5 ft. 3 in., 120 Ibs.) Vicky landed his first successful newspaper job with London's News Chronicle. After twelve years he quit because an editor refused to run one of his cartoons. Says Vicky...
...G.O.P. Congressman John Phillips until he announced his retirement last November, spreads across 11,000 violently contrasting square miles. It includes the lush irrigated ranches (cotton, fancy vegetables, dates) of the Imperial, Coachella and Palo Verde valleys and Marslike desert mountains and flats. It in cludes the onetime citrus wonderland of Riverside County, now being turned into a thriving business area by the overflow of Los Angeles-bound migrants...