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...friend, Denver Banker Aksel Nielsen, who subsequently promised she would be answered by TV and swore her to secrecy.) "It is true," said Ike, "that government has to do many things which, individually, we cannot do for ourselves . . . But the principle still holds true; governments must refrain from unnecessary meddling in the daily, normal problems of living and working...
Reserve to Grow On. Ike's emphasis on growth in freedom was no casual afterthought. White House advisers are well aware that the Democrats are starting to take up the refrain that Eisenhower's refusal to expand public spending has retarded the growth rate, when, say the critics, it should be expanding to keep pace with the Soviet Union. Pundit Walter Lippmann took off from the President's message most vehemently, accused the President of putting "private comfort and private consumption ahead of national need . . . The challenge of the Soviet Union," he wrote, "has been demanding...
...Congress -one that presages the most prosperous year in U.S. history, making possible a tidy budget surplus. In Moscow, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Red army will be cut by 1,200,000 men (wary Western diplomats listened hopefully, but wondered if it was not just another refrain from a familiar Russian lullaby). In Paris, Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon exhorted 18 members of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation to join the U.S. and Canada in a gigantic economic pool to help solve mutual problems and share the heavy responsibility for aiding underprivileged nations...
About the turn of the century, a popular song among Japanese students had a refrain that ran "dekansho, dekansho." It was shorthand for "Descartes, Kant, Schopenhauer." In the early 1950s, the hit refrain was "chiiku dansu" i.e., dancing "cheek to cheek." In symbolic miniature, the two songs reflect two staggering cultural encounters between Japan and the West. Clam-shut to the outside world for centuries, Japan was pried open by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1854 and avidly, if erratically, soaked up Western thought and technology. In 1945, the vanquished paid the victors the sincere, if at times embarrassing, flattery...
...movement to stop tipping. And that means tips to cab drivers, waiters, waitresses, barbers and the whole lot who have their greedy hands out to be greased by a tip in payment not for services rendered and to be paid for, but as an inducement for them to refrain from being nasty and rude...