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...Reserve announced that commercial and industrial loans in 94 major cities tumbled another $218 million for the week, making a total $1.8 billion reduction since mid-1957. In turn, the big sales finance companies chopped their interest rates by another ½% (total reduction this year: 1⅛%) for the sharpest cut in years. A day later, commercial dealers followed with a ⅛% reduction on short-term notes. One gainer was the U.S. Treasury, whose refinancing operations were helped by declining interest; Treasury's short-term rates went to 1.583% last week, down better than two points from...
...sunny California, some of the world's sharpest auto salesmen provide a deal of shade. Last week the shadiest of them all was popped into the cooler. Convicted on charges of conspiracy, grand theft and forgery, Auto Dealer Henry J. Caruso-billed as "the greatest" in his radio and TV singing commercials-was packed off to jail for a year, fined $10,000, and enjoined for the next ten years from entering any business in which he would be selling to the public. After Caruso, wary Californians agreed, the public needed a ten-year respite...
...Straight Line? The University of California's famed Virologist Wendell M. Stanley took sharpest issue with Salk. A Nobel Prizewinner himself for original work in crystallizing viruses. Stanley flatly denied Salk's theory that formaldehyde kills polio virus particles in a neat, straight-line fashion. "I have seen many times where the curve does not follow that theory," he said-and not only in his own laboratory, but also in big vaccine factories. As for the testing methods before the "incident," Dr. Stanley declared: "In the light of subsequent knowledge, they were grossly inadequate." The implication: given...
...weekly is also a harsh critic of the West, but to Poles, in their dogged, rear-guard struggle for democracy, Szpilki's sharpest needles are reserved for Communist duplicity and doublethink. In a cartoon that wryly helped to explain its own survival, Szpilki showed a technician standing with a visitor in front of a Rube Goldbergian version of an electronic brain. "You think this criticism machine is big?" said the technician. "You should see the anti-criticism machine...
Brann kept his sharpest sting for "the blatant jackasserie" of Waco's entrenched Baptists and their "storm center of misinformation," Baylor University. He needled the local Baptist press for "ladling out saving grace with one hand while raking in the shekels with the other for flaming advertisements of syphilitic nostrums." He riddled one proposal that Baptists do business only with Baptists. He ridiculed Waco's Sunday blue laws, mocked how the town fretted about liquor sales while it licensed prostitutes. He seized avidly on the scandal of a 14-year-old Brazilian girl who, studying at Baylor...