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...inflation, but does not define how much is tolerable. He hopes that foreign competition and an attack on domestic monopolies and labor featherbedding will help keep wages and prices in line. If they do not, "we should not shrink from selective controls" over such fields as consumer credit, mort gage rates and depreciation allowances -but not necessarily over prices and wages. He is for lower interest rates to spur the economy, for a broader taxation base to pay for the new projects. On the budget: "You run a big surplus to fight inflation; you run a big deficit to fight...
...Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). This week's debate subject is Amer ican comedy: Mort Sahl v. Steve Allen...
...have sophistication. They have introduced the human brain to nightclub audiences. Julius Monk's Upstairs at the Downstairs, where all the waiters are job-hunting actors, always has witty, literate revues. To an ever greater degree, the Blue Angel is the Eastern institute for bright nightclub acts, helped Mort Sahl, Shelley Berman, Mike Nichols and Elaine May to stardom. In their turn, they helped the overcrowded Blue Angel, which is apparently trying to discover how many potential angels can sit on the head...
...considered because many shy away from an artist who has been assessed as a leftist. There seem, however, to be two types of leftists seeking recognition in our non-leftist society. The first seeks to comment on the society along inoffensive, or at least familiarly offensive lines (witness Mort Sahl, or more significantly, George Bernard Shaw). The other type, which includes men like Seeger and Charlie Chaplin, issue more fundamental challenges to our present values...
...Detroit, Comic Mort Sahl mused: "It wasn't Kennedy who made the real rebuttal to Norman Vincent Peale and those Protestant ministers. It was Adlai Stevenson when he was in St. Paul. Adlai said he found St. Paul appealing and Peale appalling." Then he added: "These can't be the original candidates-they must be the road company." ¶ In Los Angeles, the newest bumper strip rejoices: "BE THANKFUL ONLY...