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When the 50-year-old Simpson goes sauntering, it is likely to turn into a bracing hike. He has done 37 miles at a stretch, would like to try a Kennedy 50. He is 5 ft. 7½ in. tall, weighs 170 Ibs., likes a martini before dinner and a nightcap of bourbon and water. He comes to his post with some knowledge of American girls, since in 1938 he married one, Mary McEldowney, onetime associate editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Simpsons have two married daughters just into their 20s and a son, Rupert, 11. Simpson...
McDonald also won higher sickness, accident and health insurance benefits -but no wage hike. In return, the union promised management a contract guaranteeing no new demands before Jan. 1, 1965, and agreed to hold off a strike for 120 days after a contract reopening instead of the present 90 days. At a cost of roughly 8½? an hour on a yearly basis, the new contract granted the smallest increases in the industry since World War II and was well within the limits of a noninflationary settlement asked of all unions by President Kennedy...
...Japanese, those old specialists in low-cost production, are now suffering most among major industrial nations from recent price rises. Spring prices of spinach and radishes, two favorite Japanese vegetables, are up 20% this year. Public bathhouses, government-regulated as utilities, got a 30% price hike in 1961, but last week owners threatened to strike to gain another 32%. Haircuts in Japan cost 40% more, laundry 30% ; even piano teachers have doubled their fees. Worriedly, Prime Minister Ikeda is considering reimposing the price controls dropped in 1954. The remedy most generally applied in other nations is to ease the duties...
...Wilder (The Apartment). With his favorite writer, I. A. L. Diamond, and his favorite Apartmentmates, Jack Lemmon and Shirley, Wilder has turned the Paris-London-Broadway musical show of several years ago into a raffishly sophisticated screen comedy that makes streetwalking seem almost as wholesome as the 50-mile hike. The score has been reduced to background music, and Wilder has wisely done away with all of the original verr-ee French accents. But he has added an ingredient that was perhaps mercifully lacking on the stage: where the theater's Irma was the only girl on view...
Behind the hike were the French, who introduced the higher tariff and persuaded the Germans to go along with it. But German poultry farmers have little to thank the French for; by cutting off the U.S., the French hope to win a greater share of the lucrative German chicken market for their own poultry farmers. The U.S. has asked the Common Market to start negotiations later this month aimed at setting aside the increase. If the negotiations fail, the U.S. is legally entitled under GATT to retaliate against Common Market imports-a step that would give it little satisfaction...