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Things come to a head at a party. Falling down drunk, the husband tries to make up to Gioia by proposing a toast which he begins with a disastrous slip of the tongue: "To my wife Rosanna!" Gioia locks him out of their room. "Go sleep with the dead!" she rages. He takes a trip. Desperate to be loved, and loved for what she is, she gives herself to her husband's adopted son (Anthony Franciosa...
Second Day. Through Tuesday morning, tension mounted at the White House. The President slept till 5 a.m., lay quietly in bed till 7:15 a.m., was examined by the doctors again. Key officials began to slip quietly into the White House-the Vice President, now informed, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Attorney General William Rogers. The White House press lobby began to fill, and the pressure piled up against Mrs. Anne Williams Wheaton, associate press secretary, who was standing in for Hagerty. At 8:55 Mrs. Wheaton put out a bulletin that the President was "progressing very well...
...government keeps quiet for fear of angering its hungry people. But in Shanghai, when a batch of frozen pork is rejected by the Russians for inferior quality, the Chinese are allowed to buy what the Russians will not take. And once in a while, a Communist newspaper makes a slip. Example: one Cantonese newspaper impressed on its readers that 22,000 Ibs. of frozen pork can be exchanged abroad for one tractor...
Yale led 3 to 0 until late in the third period, when an Eli fullback let the ball slip past him, and right outside Tom Blodgett booted the first goal for the Crimson. The fired-up Yardlings continued to press the action for the remainder of the contest, with center forward Hillery Ng'weno shooting the ball through at 5:35 of the last quarter...
...decline some 5%, and corporate profits will be lower: some $41 billion before taxes, or about 3% less than 1957. But gross national product will stay level at this year's record $439 billion, and industrial production, as measured by the Federal Reserve's index, will only slip 1.5% or 2%, a barely noticeable drop compared to the 5% or 6% decline the U.S. experienced during the so-called 1954 recession. Unemployment will also increase, yet only by 400,000 to a total of 3,200,000, once again well below...