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Later, outside the bus, Mamie slipped her arm around Candidate Harris' waist and made her first solo political speech of the campaign. It would also be a big boost in Mrs. Harris' uphill fight to unseat Democratic Congressman Byron Rogers. "Ladies," said Mamie, "I hope you'll all vote for her. We women have to have a voice in things." The home movie cameras ground away, and people with Brownies worked furiously while Mamie met a dachshund pup named Ike, told him: "Why hello, Ike, I'll tell Ike I saw you today." She shook more...
...populace was the answer of President Paul Magloire to an impromptu strike by the drivers of the share-the-ride station wagons, used in Haiti as buses and taxis combined. The drivers were protesting against a government measure that seemed to thrust at their very livelihood: a steep boost in the police fines they regularly expect and richly deserve. Few had bothered actually to read the new scale of fines, but according to the telejiol, Haiti's famed word-of-mouth communications network, merely sassing a cop could cost $24 instead of the traditional $1. Worse, they heard that...
NUCLEAR ENERGY for peacetime use will get a boost from a group of businessmen who have banded together for atomic projects. The group, which includes the Rockefeller, Astor, Firestone and Mellon interests, has hired Robert LeBaron, former assistant (for atomic energy) to the Secretary of Defense to explore possibilities for atomic projects in such fields as power and medicine, may soon set up a program for private investment...
GENERAL MOTORS, whose touring President Harlow H. Curtice has approved a $178 million program to boost auto production in England, Belgium and Germany (TIME, Oct. 11), announced more expansion in Switzerland. G.M. will spend $3,500,000 to enlarge its Bienne assembly plant, boost production from 6,000 to 12,000 cars...
...Lafayette last week, 43-year-old Mass Builder Price announced that he has hardly begun to build. In the next six months, National plans to increase its capacity at Lafayette and build a new plant in Dallas to tap the fast-growing Southwest market. The new program will boost National's production from 120 houses a day to 275. Next year's production goal: 30,000, or about one in every 25 nonfarm houses built...