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...refugees are three groups who have special reasons for clearing out. Farmers fear increasing collectivization. Young men are alarmed at reports that the People's Police would soon be doubled in size, to counter West German rearmament. Teachers have their backs up because they were asked to plug "youth dedications"-a Communist substitute for church confirmations. Said one grammar-school teacher who fled his native Greifswald: "After all, to do harm to the church is to harm the only body in East Germany that effectively opposes the Communists...
...While fishing (for the first time in his life) and trying to hook savage snook in the Florida Everglades, Vice President Richard Nixon leaned too far out of an outboard skiff while trying to make his plug let go of a mangrove root, back-somersaulted overboard. Absent from the scene of the splash: an 18-ft. alligator usually found lolling there. Later, when his guide careened the boat in too tight a 180° turn, all aboard got dipped. Muttered plucky Dick Nixon, snookless, bedraggled and amazed: "I didn't think it could happen twice...
...Hollywood, Warner Bros, announced that it had signed a contract with ABC to produce 39 hour-long film shows for Tuesday-night showings next fall. Based on three oldtime Warner hits, Casablanca, King's Row, and Cheyenne, the series allots Warner six minutes per show to plug current pictures, gives ABC a major source of weekly readymades. The on-again-off-again love affair between TV and the moviemakers is plainly on again. Simple economics served as shotgun to the merger. Television has knocked out Hollywood's staple product, the inexpensive cops-and-robbers "B" picture. Since...
...different services to be topped by $14,800-a-year civilian superiors (not yet selected) and a general 30% to 50% cut in armedforces publicity staffs. Except for the details in his orders, Wilson was not acting on his own; he was ordered by President Eisenhower to plug the leaks in the Pentagon's information dike...
...reducing receipts anywhere from $300 million to $1 billion. The fact that the provisions do not eliminate eventual tax payments, but merely postpone them, was cold comfort to Treasury's embattled budget balancers. Secretary George Humphrey admitted that the changes were a "serious mistake," asked Congress to plug the leaks...