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...five years they will probably be in a majority. Their pay runs to three or four times what a nun teacher costs, yet is enough lower than public school pay to make them hard to recruit. These rising costs put an extra strain on the collection plate-and spur on such typically Catholic fund-raising gimmicks as bingo, raffles, cake sales and carnivals...
...United Nations at this time. Granted that there can be no world disarmament without her, why not wait until Russia has agreed to arms inspection and then insist that Red China also must accept arms inspection as the price of admission? This might even act as a spur for them to put pressure on each other. However, in the meantime, for the free and neutral nations to have to take on faith two such world-conquest-minded troublemakers (when the one already in the United Nations will not submit to inspection) would merely compound all of the other problems...
...believe that wages spiraling ahead of productivity will put the U.S. at a serious disadvantage in world trade and will contribute to the gold drain. But A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany is not a man to be intimidated by odds; he vigorously believes that wages should be raised to spur buying power and growth. "Don't let anyone tell you that low wages are the answer to our problem," said he at a union meeting in suburban Miami last week. "On the contrary, ours is a high-wage, high-priced economy, and it must move forward by growing...
...given by Columnist Joe Alsop, who lives in bachelor splendor in Georgetown among his parakeets and treasured antiques. Fortnight ago, the President went hiking with the Chattanooga Times's Pulitzer Prizewinner Charles Bartlett, whose wife is John Jr.'s godmother. Last week he took off on a spur-of-the-moment trip to the movies (Spartacus) with old Navy Buddy Paul B. Fay Jr. (now Under Secretary of the Navy). Kennedy's Choate roommate, K. Le Moyne Billings, now a Manhattan adman, comes and goes like a member of the family. So does husky Georgetown Artist Bill...
Critics also argue that the minimum-wage rise and additional coverage will boost the general wage level, spur inflation, and, by raising prices in the U.S., make it more difficult for already-high-wage U.S. industry to sell abroad. But the Labor Department study reported that after the 1956 boost, the prices of goods produced by low-wage industries showed a "negligible change" over the period 1956-60 as a whole, while the all-commodity index of prices rose 6.6%. Thus the big price boost came in the industries above the minimum. Reason: low-wage industries are often prodded...