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...Writer Kerr had to do her writing at home-before the TV-because she had been asked to take vacationing Critic John Crosby's caustic TV corner in the New York Herald Tribune (for which her husband, Walter Kerr, is drama critic). She made it clear at the offset that she was not qualified to talk about TV at all, "but like so many unqualified people," she had opinions. One of them was about commercials: "What disturbs me is when, instead of the announcer, we are given a pair of young people necking in a canoe. Eventually...
...Regulus and heavy orders for a faster, improved all-weather F8U, which it now has on the drawing boards. Douglas figures that its $2.5 billion backlog and its big business in missiles and commercial jets can easily absorb the slack of the Skyhawk stretch-out. And to help offset the stretch-out in orders for its eight-jet B-52 bomber, Boeing last week got its first production contract for its ramjet Bomarc interceptor missile. The sum: $139 million...
...combined employer and employee shares) on the first $4,200 of annual income is boosted to 5½%, with further 1% tax-rate jumps scheduled for 1965, 1970 and 1975. But Social Security experts admit that even then there may not be enough income to offset benefit payments, necessitating further tax increases...
...responsible for inflation, Blough stoutly denied that the $6-a-ton average price increase ordered by U.S. Steel last month (TIME, July 8) was inflationary. As far as U.S. Steel was concerned, said Blough, the increase represented only a 4% rise in selling prices, and was not enough to offset wage and other cost increases amounting to about 6½%. For a family spending $5,000 a year, he said, the rise will bring an increase in the cost of retail products that they buy of "considerably less than 1? a day-or not even enough to buy one cigarette...
Until recently Canada managed to offset her perennial deficit in U.S. trade by selling wheat to the rest of the world, but this market tapered off last year, and Canadians blame U.S. international wheat giveaways and subsidized sales. Unless the problem of U.S. surplus-wheat disposal can be settled without injuring Canada, warns a Canadian official, it could threaten Canadian-U.S. relations even on defense matters. Canada and the U.S. must also work out joint policies for waterpower development of the international rivers of the Pacific Northwest, and Canada must decide whether its own long-term interests permit...