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...gap between income and expenditures, Dodge and Humphrey found themselves with a deficit of $2.9 billion. (Without the January 1 tax cuts, the Ad ministration, with the same expenditures, could have figured on a $2 billion surplus for the next fiscal year.) Even with the $5 billion loss in tax revenue, the Government's "cash budget" - the money it actually takes in, balanced against the money it pays out - will show a surplus of $115 million. Chief reason: payments to the Government for social security, not counted in the main budget,, exceed expenditures by about $2 billion...
...Thin Chain. Last week, for the first time, the West seemed to be on the way to closing the gap. The method: a thin chain of defense positions across the Middle East's northern perimeter, to be built piece by piece in separate pacts between the U.S. and the states of Pakistan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Later, if Iran gets hold of itself internally, it would become another link. So would Afghanistan...
Hidden Bodies. By week's end the dust was settling a little. General Motors eagerly jumped in to fill the sponsor's gap on the Godfrey & His Friends show and other advertisers were lining up to replace Chesterfield in the open radio &. TV "segments. CBS President Frank Stanton saw the rupture merely as a matter of personalities: "There are no hidden bodies. It was just a lot of little things. For over two years we couldn't get together on renewing a contract. It's a little like a divorce is sometimes...
...pages included, among other things, pictures of the Bering Sea. Spot to be filled: a gap in the BER section of the encyclopedia caused by cutting out biography and portrait of Policeman Beria...
...curriculum, now dictated by Daniel Malan's Native Affairs Ministry, must change from education to propaganda for acceptance of segregation policies. To prevent any inter-racial mingling, the government will stop teaching any of the European tongues used in South Africa. This will no doubt widen the color gap, but it will leave teachers struggling to make the few texts written in Bantu fulfill their needs. And in this language, advanced or technical works are non-existant...