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Less than four months after freezing wages to head off inflation, the Wage Stabilization Board essayed a back-wrenching feat of economic gymnastics, cartwheeled over to the stove, and began thawing wages out to compensate for the rising cost of living. Last week by a vote of 8 to 4 (with industry members in opposition), it granted 220,000 meat-packing workers a raise of 9? an hour, thus boosted their pay 14% above the levels of January 1950, and thereby violated the board's own 10% raise limit...
...staff work that he never thereafter had a combat field command of his own. A captain when the U.S. entered World War I, he served as chief of operations of the First Army, then chief of staff of the VIII Army Corps in France. His best-known feat in World War I: planning the covert movement of 500,000 U.S. troops and 2,700 guns from St. Mihiel to the Meuse-Argonne front in 14 days. General Pershing called him the finest officer of the war, took him on as his aide from 1919 to 1924. Marshall spent the next...
...Home. Skot-Hansen's proudest feat is a projected M-G-M production of The Big Glass House, a story of the U.N.'s new Manhattan headquarters in the Grand Hotel manner. He has no advertising budget with which to plug movies that plug the U.N., but he can lend studios Korean war film, give producers publicity in U.N. publications and good story material ("I have 30 story treatments dealing with the U.N. which would make fresh, wonderful pictures...
Last week another Radical leader, Martín Michel Torino, co-owner of the closed opposition newspaper, El Intransigente, in Salta, was arrested for the same "crime": disrespect for public officials. The specific charge against Torino was insulting the police of Salta-no mean feat for a publisher whose newspaper has been shut down by order of the government since December...
Good music, well-rehearsed musicians, and Mr. William Perry combined to make the Adams House Musical Society's closing concert a triumphant one. Presenting English and French works of the Eighteenth Century, the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and instrumentalists from the greater Boston area accomplished the difficult feat of pleasing an audience with music most of them had never heard before...