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Despite the rollback on auto prices and hints that prices in other industries may also be controlled soon, food prices continued to skedaddle gaily upwards (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But though food comprises a big 40% of the Government's cost-of-living index (v. 4.8 for autos), there was little talk in Washington about slapping on mandatory controls. Reason: there was nothing that Price Stabilizer Michael DiSalle could legally do to stop the rise in most foods...
...that the company went into the red, Olive Anne mapped out the cost-trimming program that got it back in the black. Last week, with a backlog of more than $50 million and major subcontracts from Boeing, Consolidated and Lockheed, it looked as though Olive Anne's first year at the controls might well be a record-breaking one for Beech Aircraft...
...Though it gives human, often humorous, color to the grim story, the film never compromises its chilling realism with the conventions of movie fiction. The heroine (Sheila Manahan) is unglamorously plump and dowdy; the young hero (Hugh Cross) wears a rumpled, ill-fitting suit; the Scotland Yard superintendent (Andre Morell) is a sternly workmanlike type with no quaint traits. The most likable character is a bighearted, middle-aged floozy (Olive Sloane) who shelters the professor. But the real heroine of Seven Days is London, with its streets, landmarks and citizens. The city gives a terrifyingly good performance...
Matter of Direction. Taken together, the two volumes show a purpose as relentless as a ledger's-the ledger of a society in the red. Taken singly, the books show little of their social arithmetic. It is as though they had been kept by a brilliant clerk who, in the first volume, scribbled a love story over his accounts, and in the second, glimpsing the significance of the figures he was adding, covered the pages with invective. The Telegraph is one of the most savagely witty books ever written...
...century later, thousands of men & women still answer Mrs Fox's query with a fervent yes. For the Fox sisters, though they later went on tour to confess that their apparent psychic powers were an "absolute fraud," really started something. By 1854 (while the Fox sisters were still "psychic"), 15,000 earnest believers had signed a petition demanding that Congress appoint a committee of scientists to investigate such phenomena.* And belief in spiritualism continues to flourish. This month, Britain's House of Commons gravely read for the second time a bill to protect "genuine" mediums by repealing...