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...that the question of whose budget it really is has slipped quietly away unanswered, the more practical matters of the national economy are under observation. In the House Appropriations Committee, the Cabinet officers have been going to bat for their slice...
...before day's end Lausche, too, crumbled. Ohio's senior Senator, Republican John Bricker, urging an extra $15 million for harbor improvements in Cleveland, remarked with a straight face that the state's junior Senator favored the amendment. Put on the spot, Lausche reached for his slice of pork. "I would be unfair to my constituents in Ohio," he declared, "if ... I did not concur with my associate Senator...
...game on NBC's Twenty One to Mrs. Vivienne Nearing, a blonde barrister who had tied him for two weeks running. The loss shaved Van Doren's take from $143,000 to $129,000, still the largest prize ever awarded on any single program. Income taxes will slice this sum plus the annual $4,500 he gets as an English instructor at Columbia University to about $28,795. (Columbia last week gave him a $100-a-year raise that had nothing to do with his TV prowess...
...love, we share with deep emotion") was not lost on his fellow filmsters, nor was its bestseller ranking: first on almost all popularity charts, including first in store sales and on jukeboxes, most often played by disk jockeys. Among Hollywood-be singers who were nibbling at Hunter's slice of the pie last week...
...General Motors' Allison engine division and Westinghouse. which produced the first U.S.-designed turbojet, both have lost much ground. Though Allison leads the turboprop field and will produce the engines for Lockheed's C-130A Hercules transport and new Electra airliner, it has only a small slice of the big jet market. Finally, Westinghouse has been beset by so many engine bugs that it is pinning most of its hopes on the new, medium-sized J54 jet which it has developed with $12.5 million of its own funds, hopes to sell to the Navy and Air Force...