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...promise to balance the French budget without raising taxes. At first, Pinay did remarkably well (TIME, April 21 et seq.), but by last week his "save-the-franc" campaign had fallen afoul of man and nature. Foot-and-mouth disease, raging in central France, had ravaged cattle herds, sent beef and veal prices soaring. A hot, rainless summer reduced butter and cheese production, ripened a grape harvest so abundant that the bottom fell out of the wine market. Rearmament cutbacks produced spotty unemployment in the engineering trades; French labor unions threatened new demands for wage increases. With
Stenographers typed in air-conditioned comfort; when they wanted a breather, they strolled into an airy lounge with an outside wall of glass, and sank into deep and comfortable modern chairs. At noon, the 1,200 employees all had a free three-course meal (main course: roast beef) in a spacious cafeteria; afterward, they could stroll along shady paths through 27½ landscaped acres surrounding the building. Off work at 4:15, they could swim in a big (75 ft. by 42 ft.) swimming pool, play tennis on two courts, get a book from the free lending library...
...most U.S. voters. 4) Some corruption in his Illinois administration, in no way traceable to him, but to some of the men he appointed (e.g., he had to fire Charles W. Wray, superintendent of foods and dairies, who was later indicted for taking bribes to pass horse meat as beef...
...Labor M.P. crouching naked in a willow tree, with 40 Scottish housewives prancing below and screeching: "Come doon, ye mangy tod, and I'll buff your beef!"? Why does a stern Presbyterian minister stand by waving a two-handed sword and bellowing: "There is a harvest still, a harvest of thistles and of tares, for the sword of Gideon...
Generators Down. Heavy reinforcements of planes and pilots were being dispatched from the U.S. to beef up Mark Clark's air strength. Although Washington was holding the figures under a security lid, Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop estimated that "the planned reinforcement will increase the overall strength by 40%, and the strength in jet planes by an even higher percentage." In Korea, General Van Fleet publicly surmised that more air pressure might force the Reds to sign a truce...