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...Hamilton harbor aboard the missile cruiser Canberra, stepped ashore from a U.S. Navy launch. "Harold, how are you?" Ike said warmly. That evening, the Big Two's big four-President, Prime Minister, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd-gathered for a roast-beef dinner in the private dining room of Macmillan's suite. Despite white dinner jackets, it was a friendly and informal meeting. Before ranging off into the problems of 1957, Ike and Mac exchanged reminiscences of the wartime days when Diplomat Macmillan served as British Minister Resident at General Eisenhower...
Perhaps no one is surprised at this lurid information. Perhaps the reader is at the moment sitting back and contemplating his green roast beef with an air of hardened indifference. Perhaps, however, he is outraged. In which case, we will endeavor to soothe...
...buyers must also be praised, however, for their enterprise and thrift. Not everyone would go out to Chicago at the last minute that way just for the sake of a bunch of out-at-heels students. There is no way of telling how much more corned beef and cabbage can be served because of the buyers' waiting until the meat could be condemned. We only wish that more money could be saved. Perhaps the buyers might be able to wangle a little of that Cutters-and-Canners', for Sundays and holidays...
...record national income and spending pressed hard on prices. The Department of Agriculture reported that consumers would pay more for pork in 1957, and possibly for better-grade beef. Last week, alarmed by the burst of price increases, Washington began taking notice and action. Two congressional committees laid plans to investigate the hike in gasoline prices, and the Department of Justice launched a third probe into a possible price-fixing conspiracy. In an attempt to keep sugar prices from soaring higher, the Agriculture Department again increased sugar-marketing quotas, the second time in less than a month. But as consumer...
...perfectly," the friend observed, "looking and acting the part more of a traveling salesman than an Oxford don. Gaitskell is a very bright and shrewd man," he continued, "combining all the sharpness of a brilliant, well-trained civil servant with the light touch of a hearty beef-eating Englishman...