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...whom I interviewed, nearly half said they intended to vote Democratic this fall." The reason: "Overburdened with debt for new homes and autos as many of the younger workers were, and with little seniority to hold their jobs, they have been perhaps the one element in the population hit hardest by the economic downturn...
...going on to California and Oregon, Vice President Nixon planned to campaign right up to Election Day. Ike will make October campaign speeches in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, probably followed by appearances in New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. The President, said White House aides, would bear down hardest on Democratic deficit spending, on the failure of the Democratic Congress to pass a labor bill last session, and on the continuing recovery in the national economy...
...Hearst's Sunday-supplement American Weekly. Telling all in girlish, ghost-ridden prose, the sultry actress offered a first-person glimpse into how a poor, tomboyish beanpole from a little Italian town near Naples eventually blossomed into a bosomy international movie star. Life was hard in the slums, hardest of all when young Sophia learned that Mom and Dad had never married. "A shadow had fallen across my tiny world. Suddenly I was insecure." But a girl friend's advice helped: "I held my head high and my body erect and looked everyone in the eye." Soon others...
...recovery from the recession, even the hardest-hit industries are showing sharp improvement. Last week the laggard railroads were back on the track: carloadings rose to a 1958 high of 667,277 cars, only 8% under 1957. Several of the carriers deepest in red ink nudged into the black for the first time in almost a year...
...Hardest hit nation will be Peru, which stands to lose $12,000,000 a year in dollar earnings, or about 4% of all export income. Mexico also faces a loss of $12,000,000 in the year ahead, plans to minimize unemployment by giving smaller mines a break on apportionment of quotas within the country. Bolivia will lose $1,000,000, Australia $5,000,000. Some governments will have to cut back budgets to accommodate reduced revenues, may possibly slap on discriminatory quotas against U.S. goods in retaliation. But the State Department hopes the quotas will give an important push...