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Thanks to Television. With help from Boyd, and such other horse-opera stars as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, one retailer estimated the trade would sell upwards of 40 million pieces of Western gear this year. About half of all boys' furnishings will have a Western touch. Though the boom has been building for several years, one big reason for the sudden upsurge is television. Unable to get current movies, TV stations have resurrected hundreds of old-fashioned Westerns...
...sure there are psychoanalyst's couches in the offices, and one room has a one-way observation screen built on the wall, but other psychological gear is conspicuously lacking. "Mein Kampf" and a life of Daunier flank the psychology texts in the bookcase; there are Japanese prints and Winslow Homer watercolors on the walls as well as pictures of Freud. The Clinic even has a kitchen, and serves its own 40-cent lunch for the staff...
...than the Roman Catholics in their statements of the nature of God and of man, and of the meaning of the act of faith. However, they lay the main emphasis of their teaching on sin, which in its turn throws the whole structure of Protestant popular devotion out of gear . . . This results in the placing of eucharistic devotion to one side, in the periphery of devotion and as a practical result, Protestant services become drab and lacking in all life and color...
...High Gear. The election would also test George Drew's leadership of Canada's chief opposition party, the Progressive Conservatives. When Parliament was dissolved last week, the Progressive Conservatives (Tories) held 69 of the House's 245 seats against 125 for the Liberals. Last January George Drew, 55, had given up the premiership of Ontario to become the Tory leader. In the federal Parliament he had been an outspoken, hard-hitting member. He had made things hum in the House, had thrown his party into high gear...
...their failure to do anything about a prospective drop in Canada's foreign trade, and their haste in calling the election. There was a good chance that the country would also hear him repeat a charge that he made last week-that the Liberals were "socialists in low gear...