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When Labor Department Statistician Ewan Clague offhandedly remarked last week that the economy may well spin into a recession next year, he was simply echoing what has become everyday talk in the U.S. business community. Businessmen are well aware that no one has yet repealed the economic cycle. Few seem to question that there will be another recession of some sort, though they disagree over its intensity, and wonder when it will come...
...ninth annual Golden State Roundup last week, more than 8,000 square dancers trekked to Oakland's Municipal Auditorium from as far away as Canada and the East Coast. "EIGHT SPIN-AWAY WITH A HALF SASHAY! " honked the caller, and off they went-careening and reeling, wheeling and jumping, into each other's arms and out again while the music sawed and pounded out She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain...
...supply of gentle practical jokes and good-humored cracks. He once told John F. Kennedy: "They tell me I'm too old to play baseball and you're too young to be President. We ought to get together." Playing for Fun. A onetime pitcher who learned to spin a southpaw curve on the sooty sidewalks of Donora, Pa., Musial could, if he chose, retire with honor and security. He has never haggled over money: when he signed the National League's first $100,000 contract in 1958, he was frankly embarrassed. "I would have settled for less...
...also loves the headmaster's daughter. The headmaster - a superior comic creation by Leo McKern - is so cheap that he is not above stealing a pencil from a teacher's desk. A man like that is not about to spin off his daughter to a teacher who earns 1,500 francs a year...
Sheathed in a tight skirt, Princess Margaret, 31, showed a bit of thigh as she hopped behind Husband Tony for her first spin on a motorcycle in rural Somersetshire and was promptly knocked from pillion to post by London fashion editors who thought "chic and cheerful" trousers would have been more suitable. Nothing fazed, Meg cheerfully let herself in for more complaints about royal overexposure by showing up at a London theater in a one-strap evening gown that displayed a dazzling expanse of shoulder...