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...late autumn 1958. In a nation that only lately climbed out of a steep recession, and that has elected a Congress likely to be less cost-conscious than its predecessor, the goal seems almost unattainable. Even if the Administration is right in its prediction that the economy's upward surge will push federal income in fiscal 1960 to an alltime record of $75 billion, a deficit of more than $4 billion still looms if spending stays at this year's level of $79.2 billion. And the pressures on spending are upward, not downward: the fantastically elaborate military hardware...
...Nationalist record of 62 million tons to 130 million tons. And this, according to Peking, is only prelude. Hailing 1958 as the year of "the great leap forward," the Chinese Reds took as their primary slogan: "Overtake Britain in production in 15 years." and after revising production targets ever upward, claimed that by the end of this year China would have produced 10.7 million tons of steel-double last year's figure. More breath-taking yet was their claim that production of edible grains would soar to 350 million tons, 90% over last year...
...there is antimatter in the universe, says Dr. Schein, there may be anti-gravity too. Antiprotons should rise upward, instead of falling toward the earth. The great balloon experiment may find evidence of such offbeat behavior. The tracks may even show that the elementary particles (protons, neutrons, etc.) are not really elementary. Each may contain a complicated structure whose behavior turns out more strange than anything yet imagined...
...program, the government could be avoided. But there are other problems. The bookkeeping alone for such a program, keeping track of thousands of thirty and forty year loans, would be of epic size. A great quasi-Social Securities office would have to be set up, and with an inevitable upward rise of secretary salaries and of business equipment, the plan could cost more than it's worth...
Graham was a shade too fatherly, Sheilah implies, to be fully satisfactory as a mate, but he did replace the U-brush with some H's and cured her of saying "Oo-er! Wot an 'at!" After that it was onward and upward-showgirl with C. B. Cochran and Noel Coward, playgirl with palace guardsmen and aristocrats. Trouble was that along with a pseudonym, the ex-Lily had concocted a sort of pseudo-family tree and she never knew when someone was going to cry, "Timber!" In 1933, she decided the U.S. was the best place...