The House Ways and Means Committee reports heavy mail in favor of a bill for gradual and automatic reduction of individual and corporate taxes over a five year period. Senator John Kennedy has told a teachers’ convention in Baltimore that it is the federal government’s ’’unavoidable responsibility” to enact a school aid program without delay. . . . Federal troops in Little Rock cost the government an estimated $95,000 a day.
The UN Emergency Force in Egypt is now $12.8 million in arrears. Its cost by the end of the year, after fourteen months operation, will be an estimated $35 million. . . . The General Assembly has agreed to lower the U.S. contribution to the UN from 33 to 30 per cent, but this does not include U.S. support of the special agencies, such as the 49 per cent to the Technical Assistance program this year. . . . Senator Knowland reminds us that the USSR has used its Security Council veto 81 times to four times for France, two for Great Britain, one for Nationalist China, none for the U.S.




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