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...Africans regard your State Department's fumblings in the Congo and Katanga with the same apprehension as if watching a drunk trying to fix our only watch-by tearing out the only working part without thought of getting it together again...
Last August the Justice Department's Antitrust Division brought suit against three major drug makers-American Cyanamid. Bristol-Myers and Chas. Pfizer & Co.-on charges that they had conspired to fix prices of three "broad spectrum" antibiotics. The trustbusters' charges were similar to those that the Federal Trade Commission had been pressing since 1958 against six drug companies-including the three under fire from Justice. Last week the drug industry got a shot in the arm when FTC Hearing Examiner Robert Piper ordered dismissal of the FTC charges...
...cabarets and nightclubs to install lighting bright enough to discourage any hanky-panky between male and female customers. In Seoul, at the dance halls that still remain open, the fee per hostess per evening has been cut from $5.30 to $2. Said one male customer: "How can any government fix the degree of my appreciation of female charm...
...chosen to make it so. We have responded immediately, with our Western Allies, by reinforcing our garrisons in that beleaguered city. We have called up some 150,000 reservists, increased our draft calls and extended the service of many who are in uniform. These are the so-called quick-fix measures which we have invoked to improve the Western tactical position in Berlin and remind the Soviets that the city is not an open invitation to that variety of aggression which has been described as the salami, or one-slice-at-a-time, method...
...hibernating over Ph.D. generals, says he will begin revising the script "as soon as the orals are over next week and I get a night's sleep." In its present form, the show runs only 100 minutes. "We're going to add five musical numbers, choreography, and fix up the second act to bring out the full satire," he reported...