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There is, however, no one person who can do all that Davis does, and nothing, outside of a cyclotron, that can perform with his limitless vigor. While he has been appearing on Broadway in Golden Boy, he has also found time to campaign for John Lindsay for mayor of New York, propel his autobiography, Yes I Can, to the bestseller list, do guest shots on the Johnny Carson program, tape three TV specials, and make plans to shoot a full-length film, Adam, this winter. In his spare time, he netted a million-dollar deal for four two-week nightclub...
...speech difficulty, confesses that "even today I occasionally reverse syllables in a long word, and at times am compelled to speak slowly and cautiously if I am to enunciate clearly." In every other respect, however, Ike today seems as chipper as ever. This week, in appreciation of his present vigor and past feats, Republicans will gather to salute the former President at banquet tables from Alaska to Connecticut. The occasion: Dwight Eisenhower's 75th birthday...
Industry's Return. Cavanagh showed equal vigor and imagination in tackling Detroit's other problems, which were legion. To pump revenues into the nearly bankrupt city treasury, he introduced a 1% income tax that adds $42 million annually to city revenues. With added funds generated by the current auto boom, Cavanagh has wiped out the $34.5 million deficit he inherited, put the city budget in the black, cut property taxes, and halved a tax on industrial machinery...
...overall vigor of the U.S. economy-Wall Street's third major uncertainty-even the pessimists have been surprised by the durability of the expansion. The consistent Cassandras, who have been forecasting downturn for many months, have begun to hedge their predictions with such words as "may," "might," and "possibly." The clouds they see over the economy include high inventories, especially in steel, and the prospect of inflation. After staying flat for five years, wholesale prices in the past six months have jumped 2.1%-owing to a rise in farm prices and processed food costs. The increases are now showing...
...industry, in one small area east of Chicago, is busy building enough new capacity to produce 71 million tons from basic oxygen furnaces and 15 million tons of sheet by 1966. In this atmosphere, it appears that Wall Street has been listening less to the hammer and clank of vigor than to the voices of doubt...