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...first months after the Hungarian revolt, the Communists arrested everyone they could find who had raised his hand during Budapest's Five Days of Freedom. The jails were filled with young people. But recently the pattern of arrests has shown a new trend. Obviously nettled by the United Nations report on Hungary describing the uprising as a spontaneous revolt of an entire people (TIME, July 1), the Communists are now setting out to document their own line-that the revolt was made by fascists, reactionary landowners and followers of Admiral Nicholas Horthy's pro-Nazi regime...
...pattern that was varied by the New York Herald Tribune's Business Editor Donald I. Rogers, who was paid by General Motors to introduce its Buick commercial on TV during the Patterson-Jackson fight...
...others clustered like birds. A Civil War soldier's shaving kit, with slide-out mirror, was admired for its ingenuity. Six people spread out a patchwork quilt, which some country lady had made from her husband's neckties a century ago, and debated the name of the pattern. Said the oldest hand decisively, "Steps to the White House." Price of the quilt, which must have cost many weeks of loving labor: $35. In general, prices were not much higher than those of modern machine-made objects...
...First National: "Confidence in the fall outlook remains firm, despite the low visibility and the lack of any clearly discernible trend in production." Many forecasters were taking an optimistic view of the second half, said Chicago's Federal Reserve Bank, because of the economy's natural pattern of growth and several specific expectations. Among them: an auto upsurge when 1958 models come out, a rise in residential construction, a retail-sales boost as rising personal income sparks a gain in consumer spending, a rebuilding of stocks following inventory adjustment...
...Hold fast to the faith, once and for all delivered to the saints," Young told his congregation in his farewell speech. "Don't let the world make you conform to its pattern...