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...Administration, which would take over most of the work of Harold Stassen's Foreign Operations Administration. Having no man in mind, John Foster Dulles turned over the search for the policy-making executive to his Under Secretary, Herbert Hoover Jr., and five days later headed north for a Duck Island vacation...
...business has been more tightly cartelized than the watch industry, whose three basic cartels 1) fix prices for export, 2) require makers and assemblers to buy their parts at fixed rates, and 3) prescribe minimum profit margins for members of 25%. A special policing committee checks on firms that duck the complex rules and regulations, slaps fines of up to $25,000 on violators...
...Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m., A.B.C). The Story of Donald Duck. Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Manhattan Merchant Adam Gimbel and Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra. Damon Runyon Theater (Sat. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Broderick Crawford in Dancing Dan's Christmas. General Electric Theater (Sun 9 p.m., CBS). The Windmill, with James Stewart. A-Bomb Test Blast (Tues., 8 a.m.. CBS and NBC). On-the-spot (Yucca Flat, Nev.) radio-TV coverage. Bob Hope (Tues. 9 p.m., NBC). With Lloyd Nolan, French Songstress Line Renaud...
...Only one constitutional amendment, the 20th (to begin the President's term on Jan. 20 instead of March 4 and to eliminate the Lame-Duck Congress), has ever been ratified by all 48 states...
...once put a sign outside his office: WOMEN FORBIDDEN. Yet Diem is also- indulgent and demonstrative, downs huge breakfasts of such dishes as stuffed cabbage, and sometimes at formal receptions he handles his chopsticks like a coolie, shoving bowl to mouth and shoveling. He likes to hunt (duck and tiger). He may erupt into sudden violence. Considering someone he dislikes, he will sometimes spit across the room and snarl, "dirty type...