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...Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week that its Consumer Price Index (1947-49 = 100) jumped sharply (.4%) between April and May to match the alltime high of 115.4 set in October 1953. Main reason: a substantial increase in the cost of food, largely because of the upswing in beef, pork and potato prices. Main result: a 1?-an-hour wage increase for more than 100,000 workers whose pay is geared to the index. Government forecasters, with an eye toward possible wage and price increases in the steel industry (see below), expect the index to go on rising even...
...help Ike gain back some of the 7 lbs. stripped away by his illness, partly because he was still short of full recovery. He is down to 162 lbs., is thin around the face. After a diet that progressed from broth and water to cereal and innumerable chopped-beef patties, he was at last getting some rib-filling steaks and vegetables. But the longer stay also is conducive to serious thinking. After his heart attack, Ike made a careful assessment of the future before agreeing to run again. Now, with a heart condition and ileitis (whose incidence of recurrence...
...search for Grivas went on, the British government continued in public to strike as unrelenting an attitude as ever. In London a detachment of Scotland Yard men rounded up roly-poly Father Kallinikos Macheriotis, Cyprus-born abbot of a Greek Rite church, as he cooked his solitary supper of beef and eggs, and deported him summarily to Greece. The angriest questions of Labor M.P.s failed to wring from government ministers any more than the bare statement that his activities "went beyond any legitimate ecclesiastical duties and were not in the public interest." Despite this unyielding attitude in public there were...
About him billowed campaign accouterments: pirouetting blondes swathed in red, white and blue; hosiery, haberdashery and lollipops inscribed "I like Ike"; memos about coffee hours for Eisenhower; recipes for beef-stew suppers for Eisenhower. Grinning as he entered the Hotel Statler's Congressional Room, where the National Citizens for Eisenhower executive campaign conference was encamped, the subject of this unquenchable admiration was struck less by glitter and gewgaws than by the sudden impact of an anniversary...
Bump on the Forehead. Cattle experts believe that the epidemic of dwarfism may be a result of breeding beef cattle for squat, spraddle-legged, "blocky" figures. This type wins prizes in shows and brings high prices at the stockyards, but animals selected for their blocky shape may be precisely the ones most likely to be carriers of dwarfism. The dwarfs are blocky too, and in other ways are caricatures of the beef-cattle ideal. An expensive, aristocratic bull may be the cause of a bad outbreak of dwarfism...