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Calmly waiting to make sure that the public reaction was good, the new Cabinet of Giuseppe Pella met to vote its "unanimous pleasure," and. to thundering cheers, Premier Pella announced the Cabinet's acceptance to the newly convened Italian Parliament. It was a big boost for Pella (see below). Still, he was careful to regard the offer as only a down payment on Italy's claims. "I can declare in the most formal way," said Pella to Parliament, "that acceptance of ... Zone A does not imply any abandonment of Italian claims on Zone...
...staffers last week settled their disagreements with the Seattle evening Times (circ. 214,377). Terms of the settlement: a wage increase of up to 7% per week ($2.50 to $7) and an increase in editorial maximums (to $109) and fringe benefits. The Newspaper Guild, which wanted a 7-8% boost, and the Times, which offered 3-5%, were never very far apart financially or even socially. Throughout the strike, picketing staffers chatted amiably with members of the Times management entering the plant, and even got together for a "poverty poker" session with a $2.50 limit. All talk of the strike...
...triple 1952's sales this year, Columbia Tobacco's du Maurier, now running 30% ahead of last year's showing, and Benson & Hedges' ("You're so smart to smoke...") Parliaments, oldest filter on the market, which, for the third consecutive year, expect to boost sales 40%. Darkest horse in the filter race is P. Lorillard's (Old Gold) Kent. Eased into the market in the last half of 1952, Kent, with a hefty ad budget, is going ahead so fast, says one Lorillard executive, that "it's ridiculous to even talk about percentage...
...successors, Menzhinsky, Yagoda, and Yezhov, were either political nonentities or scapegoats in purges. Beria's rise, the author believes, was evidence of Stalin's tutelage rather than a boost from NKVD leadership...
Three Hats. Such cases are presented daily to the Judge Baker Center. In 36 years it has handled 15,376. This week, the child psychiatry movement in Boston got its biggest boost in years when Harvard announced that its Medical School and the Children's Hospital are combining with the center for an attack on the emotional difficulties and behavior problems of the young, from infancy through adolescence. Patients in the hospital who are found to need psychiatric care will be referred to the center, while center patients with physical problems will be treated at the hospital. The medical...