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Since the International Monetary Fund outlay will represent $1.4 billion in appropriations whether it is charged to 1959 or 1960, the issue might seem an empty quibble. But it is empty only if the idea of a balanced budget is itself meaningless. The President holds that a 1960 budget balance would be a highly valuable symbol of fiscal soundness, one that could shape the whole U.S. economy. If Congress shifts the IMF appropriation to 1960, it will wreck any hope of a 1960 budget balance-and will destroy the symbol...
Some Chinese claims bring only sniggers in the West. Rowing times, for example, are meaningless because wind and water conditions vary so widely from course to course. But Britain's Runner Sylvia Cheeseman, one of the few Western athletes to have seen the Red Chinese in training, came back from a trip behind the Bamboo Curtain convinced that Mao's big-brotherly encouragement to sport is no joke. "The coaches have to stop the athletes from killing themselves with overwork," she says. "The Chinese will be among the top three or four nations in sport in the next...
...March 7 Black Saddle (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). A meaningless title conceals a western about a lawyer (Peter Breck) almost as fast with his mouth as he is with his gun. It is all good, unwholesome...
...those days a class-wide election could have considerable meaning. As things stand at present, although one may regret the growth of the College into such a large, impersonal body, one can scarcely deny that the election of a symbolic leader for a Harvard Class is a rather meaningless proposition...
...academically talented students, said Conant, "come away from such a brief exposure with very little residue" -and there are "too many unqualified students in these courses" who should never be there to begin with." Result: "State and national statistics on how many students are enrolled in language courses are meaningless. This point cannot be stressed heavily enough...