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High on the list of Jack Kennedy's campaign promises was a fresh look at the most expensive operation in the U.S. Government: the Defense Department, which devours more than half the federal budget. For a start, he asked Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington and a five-man committee of civilian experts to study ways and means of modernizing the organizational maze that winds through the Pentagon. It was a job with plenty of precedents, for critics have been suggesting revisions in the Defense Department ever since it was established...
...257AF, which begins by ominously barring from U.S. shores anyone who has been insane, had a criminal background or who "will engage in immoral sexual acts." The victim must put down not only his name but also all the "other names" by which he has been known, and list in order each street address, town, province and country in which he has resided for six months or more since his 16th birthday. He must, of course, tell whether he is, or ever has been, a Communist or a member of any Communist-affiliated organization...
...also required to list the names of all organizations, with inclusive dates, to which he has belonged since he was 16 years old. On demand, he must give his present monthly income, the amount of cash deposited in banks and an estimate of the value of his other assets. Said a British applicant: "It made me feel like a refugee from Dragnet." In defense of the system a U.S. consul in The Netherlands said, "If we abolished the visa tomorrow, 20,000 Filipinos and 20,000 Italians would travel to the U.S. without a penny in their pockets...
...soon staged what she believes to be the first U.S. "Christmas Exhibition," with prices ranging from $10 to $50 (on the installment plan). Last week, when her gallery - still dubbed the Downtown, although it has long since moved midtown -launched its 35th annual Christmas Exhibition with a price list from $35 to $1,000, a line of 30 people stood outside the door. "We keep our rich collectors away for this sale, or they'd come in and buy six paintings at a time," she says...
...indicate whether this year's varsity in "just team" or a der for one of the top three spots in the East. Trinity nine, 8 to 1. The Oadets' loss in this match was at the number one position, and that was to Danny high on the intercollegiate ranking list...