Aid budget battles Congress as 1964 request trimmed
Aid officials defend a 1964 foreign aid program with smaller outlays and a stronger loan emphasis. Congress is expected to cut about $1 billion again, despite President Kennedy’s insistence on selective spending and a 59 percent loan share. AID faces fresh scrutiny from Gen. Lucius Clay’s commission due around March 1.
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Agency For International Development
Kennedy
AID
Frank M. Coffin
U. S
Alliance For Progress
Latin America
Coffin
Defense Department
Lucius D. Clay
Contrast of Free Markets and Central Planning Praised
The piece contrasts American free market shopping with shortages in the Soviet Union and Red China. It notes Khrushchev's complaints and Cuba's rationing after nationalization. It adds a jab about Cuban baby goods limited to mothers or expectant mothers with medical proof.
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Soviet Union
Khrushchev
Red China
Castro
Cuba
Havana
Puzzling Concession in Postal Service Bill Draws Ire
The Lorain Journal criticizes a new Postal Service Bill effective January 7 highlighting favorable rural electric cooperative REA magazine rates as one eighth of a cent while other publications face higher costs. It calls the rate disparity a taxpayer subsidy and notes co ops’ tax and borrowing advantages.
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Lorain
Ohio
Rural Electric Co-Operatives
REA
U. S. Treasury
Treasury
Lorain Journal
Budget message clouds Kennedy economic gains
President Kennedy's budget and tax plans face a long uphill pull to balance the budget and sustain employment. Deficits for 1963 and 1964 rise to 8.3 and 10.3 billion, with projections to 13 billion. The plan relies on reforms, while tax cuts and delayed rate reductions may delay revenue recovery through 1966 or 1967.
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Peter Edson
Washington Ema
Enterprise Assn
Washington
NEA
Kennedy
Congress
State of the Union
Cal
Treasury
Hollywood Young Actress to Wed Ruth Willett
Ruth Millett notes a Hollywood young actress set to marry Ruth Willett. The column discusses shopping as emotional support for women, contrasting it with men’s perspectives and explaining how purchases, even small ones, affect mood and self-image.
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Ruth Millett Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Planning a Two Person Retirement Home Layout
An article outlines how families shift housing needs from two to many and back as children arrive and depart. It recommends remodeling rather than moving, citing the Public Housing Administration checklist for aging residents and details living room placement, cabinetry reach, lighting, bathroom safety, and bed space to accommodate an elderly household.
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Public Housing Administration
PHA
Boyle's Column Blondes belie tradition
In a light column HAL BOYLE shares miscellany from readers. He cites a study showing natural blondes scoring slightly higher in IQ tests than brunettes or redheads and notes a calorie rule of 20 times desirable weight. The piece covers quirky laws and trivia, from ravens at the Tower of London to edible petroleum proteins, and ends with witty quotes.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Tower of London
Charles II
England
Tower
Five stocks with split up potential warn investors
Investors forum cites Chrysler Youngstown Sheet and Tube Union Carbide and Du Pont as poised for possible stock splits. The analyst argues psychology drives prices, warns against assuming value from par changes, and predicts many corporations will reward holders with dividends or split ups.
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American Telephone and Telegraph
America
American Telephone
Town Hall
New York City
Chrysler
Youngstown
Union Carbide
du Pont
Chemical Organization
Biddeford-Saco Journal Forum Opinion 1963 Market Outlook
The Forum discusses Europe’s Common Market and its impact on American enterprise. W.W.M. argues that prosperity will follow as leading American corporations plan to participate, while the piece notes stock market angles and investor incentives amid 1960s growth.
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W.W.M
General Features Corp
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Troy Donahue
Tony Curtis
Christine Kaufmann
Lake Tahoe
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Suzy
Jack L. Warner
Alfred Hitchcock
Tony
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Toronto
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Mexico
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George Jean Nathan
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Associated Press
Europe
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