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...programs took a budgetary mauling. But Congress was not really of a firm economy mind: it did not hesitate to vote $1,000,000 for new Senate office furniture, or to provide for the House's new $60 million office building, or to lay out $858 million for pork-barrel projects, or to ante up a $317 million pay raise for 518,000 postal workers (without increasing postal rates to cover the cost...
...Pork & Soccer. Aspiring borrowers lined up outside Graham's hotel suite for four days straight, displayed every conceivable kind of sample, from homemade shoes to bedsprings. Best candidates: a bicycle framemaker with only $700 in cash but potential orders totaling $10,000; a group of young leather workers ready to turn out soccer balls by the hundreds as soon as they can get the cash; a young hog farmer with a growing surplus big enough to start a cannery. "I haven't had as much fun in years," said Graham. Then he deposited...
...years in power. "In our agriculture, Comrades," he told a Czech audience last week, "we see a great progress at present. Frankly speaking, we sometimes experience childish joy in it. Some workers in our trade organization sounded an alarm, saying there are no freezing plants to store our pork. I told them that we would easily solve this situation, which they chose to call a disaster. There is one easy way out-reduce prices, and then everyone will find a storage place in their own stomachs. We will be able to put hundreds and thousands of tons into that storage...
Restyled. In Pittsburgh, Carpenter Paul Eisel got so mad at his wife for serving pork chops that he smashed the dining-room table and several other pieces of furniture, remarked before he was fined $10 that it was "hand-me-down stuff, anyway. I was planning to have it replaced...
...address to a regional conference of Republican leaders in Trenton, N.J., Ike called for legislation giving the President the power to veto individual items in appropriations bills as "one simple way to save a lot of money"-a thrust at congressional budget-cutters who favor economy on everything except pork-barrel projects for the voters back home...