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Straight from Dreamland. To hear New Frontiersmen tell it, the new budget is lean and hard, a direct result of heroic economizing. President Kennedy labeled it "frugal," said it represented the "minimum necessary to meet the essential needs." Defense Secretary Robert McNamara-it was said-had slashed $13 billion from the Army, Navy and Air Force requests; the Budget Bureau and the White House had lopped still another $8 billion or so out of the civilian agencies' budgets...
Mills works at his job with almost heroic dedication. When he goes home in the evening he carries a load of reading matter on taxes or other Ways and Means business?he seldom reads anything that is not related in some way to the work of his committee. He has almost no diversions, has never taken a vacation trip, never traveled outside the U.S.; the only congressional junket he ever took was to nearby Baltimore. He and his wife Polly (they have two grown daughters) live in the same unfashionable apartment building that they moved into when they first went...
...discuss the issue upper most in every reporter's mind: President Kennedy's proposal to supply France with Polaris missiles. When a newsman brashly reminded France's President that "Kennedy is offering them to you," le grand Charles turned, stared down his questioner, and replied with heroic restraint: "Are you really sure...
...schools are more alike than different. With its 23 buildings on 92 acres, Reed is a tiny college of 789 coed students. With its low faculty pay and paltry endowment of $4,500,000, it is among the respectable poor of U.S. education. Yet by stern resolve and heroic dispensing of scholarship money ($250,000 a year), Reed is intellectually one of the nation's richest campuses. Reed has no other reason for being. "The only attraction here is intellectual activity," says one professor. "There is no other way to lead a satisfactory existence at Reed...
...case. And so begins a vastly exciting drama of detection, in which the audience simultaneously sees a lurid mystery unfold and a momentous theory develop. Following his patient's lead, Freud successively discovers the therapeutic methods of catharsis, free association and dream analysis, finally derives from a heroic self-analysis his doctrine that most neurosis results from sexual conflict...