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...week's only other 90-minute production was the season première of Wide, Wide World (NBC), which began by asking viewers: "Will history be made this afternoon?" and then tried to bring in TV's first live pickup from abroad. For 15 minutes viewers looked at a desolate Long Island shanty with an enormous receiving aerial and a posse of NBC monitors inside widdling their dials. But only a BBC voice and some foggy images made it across the sea. (NBC will try again next week.) Elsewhere, World fared better, e.g., a noisy jazz session...
Trivia & Fluffs. As always, the ubiquitous TV reporters caught some memorable glimpses: the unchivalrous disinterest of newspaper-reading delegates on ladies' day; NBC's pickup of the small but illuminating drama of Adlai Stevenson's reception for Mrs. Roosevelt; Bess Truman, behind dark glasses, nudging Harry in the ribs for speaking out of turn; bottle-bald Sam Rayburn (who did not submit to a dulling topsoil application of orange powder this time, as he did the last) threatening to shoot an admonishing finger right through the little glass screens in U.S. living rooms; the grin spreading across...
...take into account the huge backlog of buying power behind bottled-up wartime shortages. Many of them underestimated the 1953 boom; many oversold the 1954 recession. Even in January 1955, as the U.S. hummed into an alltime record year, eight economists at a congressional hearing foresaw only a slight pickup from 1954. At the start of 1956, almost all economists were correct in predicting that business would be good for 1956's first half. However, said the University of Pennsylvania's Irwin Friend, the signs were so plain that "only a very silly forecast could have been wrong...
...biggest trouble spot was in the auto industry. United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther flatly said there was "no hope" for a sales pickup, asked auto and farm-equipment makers to meet with labor to map plans to help the industries' unemployed; he put the auto figure at 142,000, out of a total work force of 900,000. Detroit was worried, and rightly so. There was also a bright side to the picture. Used cars were moving well, and some late models were in such short supply that prices were better than last year...
...with a huge twelve-cylinder engine, the only V12 currently in production, which can push it smoothly along the straightaway at close to 190 m.p.h. The weight of engine and chassis is kept low in relation to the horsepower (about 6 Ibs. per h.p.). Thus the cars have tremendous pickup. The low center of gravity (and just enough weight to keep rear wheels from spinning) allows them to cling to murderous curves at 100 m.p.h...