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While crying for Government economy, businessmen are generally careful not to single out federal programs that might affect themselves. When the Chamber of Commerce met in Dallas, for example, the assembled businessmen went on record against high federal spending on the same day the newspapers carried a statement by the president of the Dallas chamber criticizing the General Services Administration for canceling its lease-purchase program to build a $24 million federal office building in Dallas...
...department heads. He asked first that they recommend career officials, whose policy-making function should exempt them from civil service protection, for appointment to a special Administrative category--Schedule C. Secondly, he inquired whether any department needed additional non-career officials. The second point, since it will not affect present civil service posts, seems worthwhile. The first part, although it may put a number of positions up for grabs, is unsound for strictly non-political reasons...
...findings on how two chemicals, serotinin and LSD, affect the beating of the clam heart, appear to have a direct relationship to psychosis in humans...
...receipts (eleven lesser opera companies were granted a smaller percentage). By 1955, this had boosted the annual opera packet to $6,000,000. Last fall the government announced that it would press for a law establishing the subsidy at a flat $4,000,000 yearly. This would not affect the music, said economy-minded Budget Minister Adone Zoli, but would merely curtail extravagant choreographic and scenic effects...
Aside from fighters, the budget cutbacks may also affect the production of other planes, mainly light bombers and transports. Douglas, for example, will phase out its twin-jet B66 bomber in 1958. It will also feel the budget pinch on its previous high hopes for the mammoth C-132 transport (see cut), a new turboprop aircraft that can carry 200,000 lbs. of cargo 3,500 miles at 450 m.p.h. speed. Instead of receiving a big contract, Douglas may in the end produce only a few of the planes. But it will still have a heavy backlog of orders...