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...prospects for a balanced budget depend on two all-important assumptions : a continued cut in spending and a continued rise in revenues. Both are far from certain. One big problem is the high cost of national security, which makes up 61% of the budget. For the first three months of fiscal 1956, U.S. military spending alone was at a $36.1 billion annual rate, some $2.1 billion more than originally figured in the revised budget last August. The increased outlay for defense, however, is offset by sharp drops in other phases of the national security program. The military phases...
...week's events boiled down into one easily-digested serving. And they are influential. As Time (circ. 2,000,000), modestly admits in its advertisements, "America's leading educators, presidents of business corporation, members of Congress, the top men in practically every field vote Time their favorite magazine. . . . They depend on its accuracy...
...comforting to know that the educators, corporation presidents, Congressmen and others who depend on Time, can draw their opinions from such a clear, pure fountain of fact. Makes the rest of us feel more at case...
According to Menzel's hypothesis, all stars would be capable of producing planetary systems similar to ours because of certain electromagnetic fields present on their surfaces. Since the theory does not depend on chance collisions between stars, the possibility of many systems like our own is increased...
Kirkland House's Master, Charles H. Taylor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History, gave his support to the experiment, and said, "Of course this is an experiment, and obviously a great deal will depend on the response of the students. We're very hopeful about it, however...