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Another reason why President Kennedy's welfare-state legislative proposals sometimes generate scant enthusiasm in Congress is that he himself often seems to have little genuine enthusiasm for them. He often conveys an impression that he is operating as a political technician, asking not what the measures can do for the country but what proposing them can do for him politically. Lacking, or seeming to lack, any real commitment to his welfare proposals, the President sometimes fails to give them sustained support. "He sends up one message after another," says a congressional Republican, "and then forgets about them...
...plane, we will all cheer in unison, hip, hip, hurrah." When Nikita stepped out of his plane, all smiles, the crowd was silent and only the honor guard of soldiers shouted, officially. In contrast to President Kennedy's welcome by more than a million West Berliners, a scant 250,000 East Berlin factory workers, secretaries and schoolchildren, marching in closed formations, turned out for Khrushchev. Along parts of the 16-mile route to the Red city hall, the only spectators were the Volkspolizei...
...that the onetime aliens now consider themselves real West Germans is the collapse of the Refugee Party, which once had 27 seats in the Bundestag. It has had no national voice since 1957; last month in Lower Saxony, where refugees comprise about 25% of the population, it polled a scant 3.7% of the vote during state elections. Says Hans Koplitz, a Sudeten German who now owns a prosperous laundry and dry-cleaning establishment in Munich: "At most, we pay lip service to the idea of returning to our homelands...
...Graduate School of Education in December to become U.S. Commissioner of Education. Although the Ed School's endowment, now $5,780,000, has more than doubled since 1948, its financial position remains unhealthy. Expenses have risen from $226,000 to almost $3 million; today income from endowment provides a scant 11 per cent of the annual budget, and tuition adds only 21 per cent...
Despite Le Corbusier's grand conception, the Unite d'Habitation has been only a partial success. The apartments, arranged as duplexes, have 15-foot-high living rooms opening on four-foot-deep balconies. But, the bedrooms are very narrow--only 13-feet for the master bedroom and a scant six-feet for children's rooms and both kitchens and bathrooms are windowless. The arrangment has brought criticism on the grounds that it is cramped and lacks privacy...