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Most heartening proof of stability, as the economists see it: the plateau achieved by the wholesale commodity price index-down two-tenths of a point in the past year. Another sign, but less significant because it covers more luxuries and services: the Labor Department's consumer price index shows that living costs dipped slightly in January (one-tenth of 1%) for the second consecutive month-the first time since 1956 that decreases have come back to back...
...Districts 4, 5, 6 and 8, along the East Coast, were strong Kennedy country; he even strengthened it by giving himself the doubtful First, at the base of his thumb. Still uncertain was the area running roughly from the middle finger to the pinkie-the Second, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth. That is where Opponent Hubert Humphrey has been riding high, and where last week Jack Kennedy rolled his campaign machinery...
...tenth consecutive year, a U.S. President sent a mutual-security foreign-aid program to Congress, and Dwight Eisenhower's 1960 model had worn and familiar lines. A multibillion-dollar aid program, acknowledged Ike to a moderately hostile Congress, is now "a fixed national policy." And then he requested a budget-rattling $4,175,000,000 for fiscal...
...Valentine's Day 1950, as Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung sealed a treaty of "friendship, alliance and mutual security," Comrade Mao predicted that this union of 700 million people would "inevitably influence the future of all mankind." This week the tenth anniversary of that historic union was observed with determined gaiety in Peking with lectures, parades and folklore festivals. Soviet Boss Khrushchev was too busy to take part personally in these solemnities. China's No. 1 ally was, ironically enough, off in India building friendship with China's No. 1 rival for Asian leadership...
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