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...also used it for political advantage. By prophesying ever-higher national output, the President was also prophesying ever-higher federal revenues to balance the budget and pay for the Fair Deal's expanding welfare programs. It was one thing to hope for higher revenues; it was another to depend wholly on it, while the Government jeopardized the prospect by spending, year after year, beyond its means (see below). The President's economic advisers estimated that the Fair Deal's social security and health programs would be costing $25 billion yearly by 1975. But by then, they said...
...administration had wondered when the Reds would try to take Hong Kong itself.. Last week, the five-starred flag of Soviet China fluttered ominously in Hong Kong, but the Red army was still on the other side of the border'. How long they would stay there would depend in large measure on the wisdom Hong Kong's rulers displayed in the colony's latest labor crisis...
...West, too, there were tremors. As long as the Western Communist Parties are not in power,* they depend on Moscow for survival and cannot afford rebellion. Nevertheless, Titoism, i.e., the heresy of holding one's own national interests above Russian interests, has had some limited, clearly discernible effects among Western Communists...
Corwin described the airwaves as in a mediocre condition today. He laid the blame for this mainly on sponsors who rely too much on advertising agencies and agencies that depend too greatly on the rating system for deciding a program's success...
Under the Regional Scholarship program, the actual amount of the award to each scholar will depend directly on individual financial need. Selection of men to receive the scholarship will be made on a basis of aptitude for business training, without regard to financial used. In extreme cases, the scholarship may cover the entire cost of a man's training for business administration...