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...steelmen are far from convinced that the pickup signals quick and complete recovery. Inland Steel Co. Chairman Joseph L. Block could muster only "mild optimism." Said E. J. Hanley, president of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp.: "I don't feel quite so bad as I did a few weeks ago. But anything will be better than July." One steel executive, noting the common prediction that U.S. mills will pour about 100 million tons this year, commented: "That isn't bad−if you don't mind standing still...
...Angeles, business was off 10%. The nationwide Ask Mr. Foster travel service noted a decline in sales of luxury tours. A Beverly Hills florist moaned: "People are still getting married, having babies and birthdays, but dammit, they're not saying it with flowers." (One jeweler reported a pickup in sales of diamonds, presumably to buyers who had decided that rocks are safer than stocks.) There were some other signs of consumer caution. Savings deposits in New York banks rose sharply in June, while applications for loans to buy expensive cars fell. A Boston banker reported that some...
...cotton allotments in Texas. A big (6 ft., 200 lbs.) man who had worked for the department for 26 years. Marshall ate an early breakfast with his wife in their $20,000 home in Bryan, Texas, on the morning of June 3, 1961. Then he climbed into his pickup truck to look over his 1,500-acre ranch in nearby Robertson County. He dropped his son Donald, 10, off with relatives...
...church: Johanna Wilhelmina Schouten, whose parents emigrated from Holland. In recent years, she and their five children have bravely endured both his long absences from home and his addiction to secondhand automobiles (he owns four: a '36 Dodge coupé, a '41 Dodge pickup, a '50 Ford convertible, a '51 Chevrolet sedan...
...Foggy Bottom seeped belated intelligence of a night of indiscretion in the State Department-U.S. Information Agency bowling league: a challenge match last month between the league and a pickup cabal headed by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and rounded out by Under Secretaries George Ball and George McGhee. Which way did the pins fall? "Well," blurted a DOS spokesman, "I am not at liberty to divulge the score, of course, but Rusk's team got creamed...