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...pair of tart messages, President Eisenhower prodded Congress to pass intact his $4.2 billion foreign-aid request (a House-Senate conference committee authorized a $4.1 billion ceiling; still ahead was the appropriation wrangle), to heed a string of top-priority problems ranging from the Treasury interest ceiling to the appalling farm mess. "We still have a great deal to get done for America," said he. But Democratic congressional leaders, forewarned fortnight ago of Ike's determination to veto big-spending bills, went right ahead setting up fat targets...
...days comes from his office in his Madison, Tenn. home-which is wedged between a gas station and a used-car lot-where the Colonel keeps fresh the country touch. He and his wife have no children, give most of their time to a large garden, once kept a string of ponies and rented them out to all comers...
...appointment misspelled it. A onetime student of France's famed Nadia Boulanger, Conductor Skrowaczewski, 36, became prominent after the war as a vigorous champion of modern music, in rapid succession directed three of Poland's top orchestras, also found time to write four symphonies, a ballet, four string quartets and a score of smaller works. When he made his U.S. debut with the Cleveland Orchestra last season, he was generously cheered by audience, musicians and critics, one of whom reported that the guest conductor left him "spellbound, transfixed, electrified...
...Chevrolet Bel Air costs $21,691) and an average auto age of 20. It is probably the only nation in the world which had more cars per capita in 1928 than it does now. Many a Buenos Aires taxi is over 30. Taxis chug along, doors tied shut with string, bodies rocking precariously on chassis, drivers flailing their arms to compensate for 180° of steering-wheel play. In Chile, where the buyer of a $2,000 U.S. car must post an import-discouraging $20,000 bond for three months, some 60% of the country's 54,429 cars...
...being crossed off the schedule for next season, as well as the muchballyhooed $15 million NBC Ford Star-time, which did some good drama (e.g., Ingrid Bergman in The Turn of the Screw, Alec Guinness in The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Deekes), but otherwise ran up an awesome string of flops. Many of the less ambitious series fared no better. A total of 55 shows will not return to the air next season, ranging from Love and Marriage to Bat Masterson, from Desilu Playhouse to the John Gunther show. The only new series in 1959-60 that really clicked...