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...more generous than the Administration thought wise: it expanded the 21-year-old Social Security program, added disability benefits at the age of 50, forced on the Defense Department more money ($900 million) than it wanted for the Air Force. The two bills for which the 84th will be longest remembered: the $33 billion highway construction program, biggest public works project in U.S. history, and the dam project to bring vital power and water to the hungry, thirsty Upper Colorado River Basin...
LONG-DISTANCE TRAINS will be all but extinct in two decades, says Donald J. Russell, president of Southern Pacific Co., second longest (12,435 miles operated in 1955) U.S. railroad. Reason, says Russell, who also predicts end of Pullman cars, is jet airliners, which will soon be capable of 1,000 m.p.h. speed...
Such criticism did not ruffle Happy. "Isn't that a sad thing?" he beamed. "It all depends on whose ox is gored. We simply had the longest horns, and we did the most goring. Politics, you know, gets a little rough, and if you can't stand the gaff, you better get out of the game...
...realized that their social responsibilities ran far beyond their own companies. A man with consuming interest in virtually every area of human endeavor, he had a rare ability to translate his thoughts into action. His entry in Who's Who in Amer ica was for years the longest of all, but, unlike many joiners, he worked hard at everything he gave his name...
...Pocketful of Acorns. What that doom might be-a universal death for all mankind in a new war-Author Gascar hints at most movingly in his last and longest tale, The Season of the Dead. It is about the Nazi massacre of east European Jewry. The story is not new, but this is perhaps one of the rare times that a writer of fiction has taken it through the tunnel of horrors into the light...