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...Khrushchev answer, last week, that ambassadors ought to fix only housekeeping details, that foreign ministers ought to talk only about substantive matters "by common agreement." i.e., subject to Communist veto, and ratify a summit meeting regardless of disagreements...
...refused to review the convictions of Matthew J. Connelly, appointments secretary to President Truman, and Theron Lamar ("Sweet Thing") Caudle, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's tax division. They were fined $2,500 and sentenced to two years in prison each for conspiring to fix a tax case during their days in power. Although Connelly and Caudle can ask the Supreme Court to reconsider, their chances are indeed remote...
...matter where the experts may eventually fix the dose of radiation that can be considered safe, Commander Dobbins was sure that atomic sub crews-within a few yards of the reactor for 24 hours a day-so far have been exposed to only a fraction of permissible totals. When industry goes into full-scale production and operation of reactors for civilian power needs, it will have an invaluable body of data collected from the first men to go under the sea in atomic vessels...
...buying such stocks as U.S. Steel, Montgomery Ward, Libbey-Owens-Ford for the long pull. Says San Francisco Investment Broker George Davis of Davis, Skaggs & Co.: "These stocks are being bought by men with eyes over the hump, while the others are all moaning about 'what a fix...
Compass Points. The fix the U.S. is in was primarily caused by the catastrophic drop in auto sales and the extreme cuts by many industries in inventories and production (see chart). Another characteristic of the 1958 recession is that it is spotty and regional...