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...capable young actor named Robert Horton, who plays a tough scout. On the show, Actor Bond is fatherly one minute, the next he is roaring like a mule with the colic. An extravert's extravert, he has a grin like a Texas river, a mile wide and an inch deep, and a laugh that can shatter a klieg light. He also has guts. When a backing horse broke his hip, Bond bellered for his Scotch and milk (the milk is for his ulcer, he explains, the Scotch for him), was on the set next...
...only aggravated the recession but contributed greatly to causing it: "These price increases were a major factor in limiting demand." Saulnier singled out for attack the rises in "heavy industries and those producing automobiles and other consumer durables." What worried Washington now was that industrial prices have started to inch up sooner than usual for a recession-recovery period. Though the consumer price index has remained fairly stable since mid-1958, the Fed's Young said that industrial prices have climbed 1½% above the previous record of 1957. That was all Subcommittee Chairman Estes Kefauver had to hear...
...structure, second of its kind in New England, has been designed by professionals and will resemble a "concrete umbrella" already built in Canton. The three-inch thick concrete slab will be 48 by 48 feet and supported by a lone 20-inch square center post. A three-foot thick triangular piece of concrete under the surface will support the "umbrella...
Paternal Solicitude. Trimble followed up his story. Thumbing through a three-inch stack of House pay records for January, he broke the news that Iowa's freshman Democratic Representative Steven V. Carter was paying his 19-year-old son $11,873.26 a year as his public-relations assistant, although the lad was also a part-time pre-law student at George Washington University (TIME, March 2). When House leaders brushed off his stories ("They kept telling me everyone runs his own business"), Trimble spent a weekend in Iowa gathering outraged reactions to Carter's paternal solicitude. Iowa...
...President Eisenhower that the allies must either determine what concessions are necessary for negotiations, or must take the necessary military measures to make in clear that Western firmness on Berlin is both forceful and realistic. At the moment, the President is alternately announcing that he will neither give an inch not mobilize...