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...funds will seep into foreign economies as a byproduct of some $8 billion in military aid. grab-bag "maintenance and operations." Cf Cut $3 billion out of the $10.6 billion asked for federal domestic agencies, chiefly by firing 100,000 employees and shaving secondary civilian programs. Among projects that can stand cutting: the school lunch program, since "the Depression has been over for years"; farm and education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Senator & the Monster | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...this apparently appeals to women. So does the movie's ending. The girls stop just before they arrive in California, and dress in feminine clothes. Pretending they are ladies, they march into the town and grab the men. Denise Darcel manages to get her hooks into Taylor, who keeps shouting that he is a woman hater...

Author: By Michael Maccory, | Title: Westward the Women | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...former princely state of Hyderabad lies diamond-like on the plush-green tableland of southern India. In 1948 the Communists tried to grab Hyderabad. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru sent in 10,000 police, outlawed the Communist Party, and jailed 6,000 Reds. The Communists switched from smash & grab to a confidence-man technique: through a phony People's Democratic Front they began sponsoring candidates for the first All-India general elections in history, an immense and impressive undertaking in which 173 million people (most of them illiterate) are marching to the polls in an election which will take three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Nehru's Test | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...stood up. Besides, said he: "I am not convinced that spokesmen for the N.A.M. speak for the majority of American businessmen." U.S. Chamber of Commerce Economist Emerson P. Schmidt fired back. Said he: "OPS has had little to do with stopping price increases, and in all conscience should not grab credit for below-ceiling prices." Schmidt thought that controls have been a failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Toward Better Understanding | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

Just as if nothing had happened to spoil the fun (see above), football bowl committees last week were busily buttonholing the teams which will still be playing football in January. Arkansas State College hit some sort of a jackpot in the annual grab-bag by accepting two bowl games: the Refrigerator, this week in Evansville, Ind., and the Tangerine, in Orlando, Fla. on New Year's Day. Other bowl lineups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Bowlers | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

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