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...quarter of the boost would go to U.S. guided missile development, which has so far got into production the relatively short-range Nike, Terrier, Sparrow, Falcon, Corporal. Regulus, Matador and Honest John. The 1,000-to-1,500 mile range Intermediate Range Ballistics Missile with nuclear warhead, still on the drawing boards, would probably be the main new development. Research would also be heavily concentrated on the Intercontinental Ballistics Missile, which may have a thermonuclear warhead. Wilson cautioned that the I.C.B.M. is still at least five years away...
...Communists now behind bars for Smith Act violations. The signers: Eleanor Roosevelt, Socialist Party Patriarch Norman Thomas, News Commentator Elmer Davis, plus 43 other citizens, about half of them Protestant divines. A "Christmas amnesty" for the Reds, the petition argued, would help prove U.S. confidence in democratic institutions, boost the reputation of the U.S. abroad, and "contribute toward peace in the world." Meanwhile, in her monthly Q. & A. column ("if you ask me") in McCall's magazine, Petitioner Roosevelt was Q'd as to which eligible Republican, not counting Dwight Eisenhower, she would find "most tolerable" as President...
...offing. A presidential fact-finding committee has recommended a 16½? hourly package increase for 750,000 nonoperating employees (their present average hourly pay: $1.78). To offset rising wage and material costs, U.S. railroads will ask the Interstate Commerce Commission to okay a 7% freight-rate boost...
...prospect of a hoppy ending, in which the hero gets the heroin. The Johnston office, standing to the Production Code ("The illegal drug traffic and drug addiction must never be presented"), has stamped its official nix on the picture-the sort of thundering knock that usually brings a lightning boost at the box office. On the screen, however, the picture provides much more than the cheap thrill it promises. The hero is a man who gets lost on the West Side of Chicago and does not bother to go looking for himself. The script, mild enough in comparison with Nelson...
...books, some very expensive, sold extremely well, and some of them were of major importance (e.g., The Penguin History of Art Series). Supermarkets sold dictionaries and encyclopedias by the hundreds of thousands. Enough people were worried by Why Johnny Can't Read to boost it way up on the bestseller lists; not enough were interested in challenging reading to do as much for Walter Lippmann's The Public Philosophy, a disputatious essay on the need of natural law at democracy's base...