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...couple of jobs which many Democrats still found passing strange after all their years in office: 1) help get his own party out of hock, and 2) take a critical look at the party in power. He attracted 1,400 of the faithful into the ballroom of Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel at $100 a head. There they heard Stevenson use his gift for bright English to express an exceedingly dim view of the state of the world-especially that part of it affected by the fact that the Republicans now hold power...
...spacious ballroom of Seattle's Olympic Hotel last week gathered the Pacific Northwest's electric-power men to take up a vast regional problem. Even without any large new industrial expansion, the Northwest by 1970 will need a minimum of 6,450,000 kw. of new generating capacity, 55% more than at present, and far more than will be supplied by such new federal dams as Hungry Horse, McNary and Chief Joseph. To help supply this staggering increase, Montana Power Co. President John E. Corette unfolded a dramatic plan inspired by Ike Eisenhower. The President had suggested...
Star of the Evening. On the night of the big contest in a jampacked, smoke-filled ballroom in the West End, Miss Egypt fainted at a strategic moment in the proceedings. After being revived, she refused to wear an evening gown, appeared instead in a knit skirt and blouse. But though she was the center of attention, she was not the star of the evening. The title of Miss World, and a $1,400 prize, went to Miss France. Miss Egypt finished third, after Miss Greece. "Phooey!" cried Miss Egypt. "The decision is wrong. You should see Miss France...
...Juicing up ABC radio, now that the big TV overhaul is under way. In January Disk Jockey Martin Block will move his spectacularly successful Make Believe Ballroom to the network after 18 years at Manhattan's WNEW...
...pink-and-white Crystal Ballroom of the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas last week, a scholarly man in rimless glasses presided methodically over a meeting of one of the most powerful regulatory bodies in the world. He was Ernest O. (for Othmer) Thompson, 61, chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, which decides, in effect, how much oil the U.S. shall produce. After a 16-minute meeting, Thompson announced to his audience of 120 oil company lawyers: Texas wells will be allowed only 17 producing days during November...