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...second bill, privately sponsored, recognizes the increased need which has developed since the T-E-W Bill was first introduced more than a year and a half ago and contains a broader program. It includes the 500,000 units for low income groups of the old bill, but increases the total program to provide 300,000 units for the $2100-$3600 bracket. It also extends the planning and research title to coordinate urban decentralization for defense and use of vacant land rather than slum clearance when the shortage is so severe...
...home-run-hitting John Mize might never have been a big leaguer but for Doc Hyland. The Cincinnati Reds passed him up 13 years ago when another doctor discovered an old pelvic injury (the result of riding mules bareback in his Georgia childhood). Doc Hyland operated and Big John did the rest...
...index of industrial production up three points to a new peacetime record of 195. Although the Bureau of Labor Statistics found "unexpected declines" in employment in consumer goods industries, total non-farm employment had hit a record 46 million in October, 1,200,000 higher than a year ago...
Only a few weeks ago Hennessy, who has taken just three vacations in 48 years of hard work, announced that he would retire as the $85,000-a-year chairman of the Hotels Statler Co., Inc. Ever since, he has been worrying about what to do with his spare time. Accepting the Childs job, he said: "Childs . . . has a great name, but has slipped financially and in popularity. It should be brought back to its rightful place...
Munroe was an All-American forward on the Dartmouth basketball team, Ivy League high scorer in 1942-43, and played in the Basketball Association of America on the St. Louis Bombers two years ago and on the Celtics last year...