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...adjust to the demands of change and to roll with the movement. Nowhere last week was the common aptitude better stated than in Woburn, Mass., where Gas Station Owner Joe Hanson was moving his house an eighth of a mile and building a new gas station to accommodate a wider, smoother, brighter, speedier Route 93. Said Joe Hanson: "I'm sure I'll get a fair deal from the state. I won't be compensated for my inconvenience. But I'll end up with a better business. I'll live in a better community. Things...
Plagued this year by a business recession and climbing unemployment, the government plans to cut back 1958 immigration to something like half of last year's 282,164. But the gates will doubtless swing wider just as soon as a reviving economy can absorb new manpower...
...Publications, Inc. Fairchild had scored a beat on the openings by predicting fortnight ago in his company's fashion-conscious Women's Wear Daily that "the 1958 woman will wear shorter skirts than last season . . . The chemise [sack] is here to stay, but with new slim or wider versions...
...Monopoly Subcommittee was investigating auto prices (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) , G.M.'s President Harlow Curtice was drawn into the argument as he explained why the 1958 Chevy is better than the model of ten years ago. It weighs 324 lbs. more, is almost a foot longer and five inches wider. Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney interrupted: "You say it is a better car because it is longer, wider and heavier. Have you received any complaints from people who believe these things are disadvantages? Do you think the modern...
...designers as Guy Laroche, Jean Dessės and Lanvin-Castillo, who showed their wares last week, Saint-Laurent has gone to work on the billowy, knee-hobbling chemise-sack dress, the first big change in female fashions since the New Look in 1947. Some made it slimmer, some wider, most flared the hemline and shortened it until it barely covers the knees. Fashion writers hailed Saint-Laurent for bringing a new feminine dimension to the sack...