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...answer is: more than French war weariness and prestige are at stake. If Indo-China falls to Communism, so, in all probability", will all of Southeast Asia...
...running a deficit of $5.5 billion a year? Last week, glib Leon Keyserling, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, gave his answer. The Administration's policy of spending more than it earns is no accident, said Keyserling. The Administration planned it that way in order to stave off a recession which "might have turned into something . . . serious...
...Answer in Kind. But the theaters' most touted rebuttal to TV, apart from movies that are "better than ever," is TV itself-large-screen theater television. The leading booster of theater TV is 20th Century-Fox President Spyros Skouras, who has large theatrical interests. Skouras argues that networks of movie houses with their own TV channels or circuits can outbid TV stations and advertisers for rights to sports events, operas, Broadway shows. Such programs, replacing second features on the double bill, would be good enough, says Skouras, to woo the customers from their free home sets...
...years later, in 1857, an officer who remembered Grant from Mexico had the idea of driving out to see his old buddy. Stopping a seedy, mud-spattered farmer in a wagon, he asked the way to Grant's house, got back the answer: "Well, I am he." Cried the shocked officer: "Great God, Grant, what are you doing?" Grant, who sold wood for a living, had a reasonable reply ready: "I am solving the problem of poverty...
Waiting Out the Storm. Trainers and owners, who are more interested in winning than in admiring such virtuosity, are often understandably irked by Campbell's weights. But he has an answer for that, too. Whenever a trainer storms-in, protesting that his horse has no chance at the assigned weight, Campbell calmly tunes out his hearing aid and waits for the storm to subside...