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...shortest working week"-but at some unspecified future time. It promises that there will be butter for every Russian table, while "flights to celestial and cosmic bodies" will also be carried out. It targets an overall rise of 80% in industrial output by 1965, and a 62%-63% boost in national income. Thus the emphasis will again be on heavy industry-an old story to Russian workers living in overcrowded squalor. They have to be inspired somehow to renewed effort. Khrushchev's recipe is pride, optimism, promises...
...turn out 210,000 cars in 1958, v. 170,000 in 1957, while the industry as a whole will top the 1,000,000 mark for a 100% increase in the last four years. Biggest jump of all: West Germany, which made 958,967 cars in 1957, will boost production to 1,500,000 units...
Viet Nam. Raw material producers who suffer from falling prices should not simply increase production of their rice, tin or rubber. They should boost quality, not quantity: rubber producers, for example, should strive to make their product more competitive against synthetic rubber...
Commodity prices also rose during the week (the Dow-Jones spot index was up 2.40 points to 160.08, futures up 2.03 to 154.55) on the belief that Congress will boost support prices, causing an increase in overall agricultural prices. But, said Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith's Commodity Expert Harry B. Anderson: "Last week's rise in commodity indices is only flash-in-the-pan buying. With most grains and raw materials in oversupply, inflationary pressures are not very realistic and will be difficult to sustain...
...addition, left-half Chet Boulris has been practicing with the "B" squad this week, but Yovicsin emphasized that this in no way meant he had demoted his star runner. "I'm just shaking up the team to give some of the boys a boost," the coach stated. Don Gerety and Bruce McIntyre have shared the left-half post thus far this week...