Word: americans
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Into this world of science and sex this week stepped a new contender, the Magazine of Fantasy, a slickish, 35? quarterly. Published by the American Mercury's bustling Lawrence Spivak, who also runs radio's Meet the Press program and puts out a string of mystery publications, Fantasy is designed to lift imaginative fiction up to the level of the highest brows...
Nevertheless, said Holman, "as members of an industry that provided four-fifths of the private investment made by American interests abroad last year-totaling $1.5 billion-we are disturbed by the worsening of the investment climate in many countries." Holman thought that Point Four was certainly a fine idea-if it could be made to work. So did the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. This week it gave qualified support to the program-provided that the nations receiving the aid sign treaties "assuring fair treatment of American capital...
...Skater Bobby Blake was no musician. But when Blake tootled a couple of notes on the clarinet to set the mood for his act in Holiday on Ice, James Caesar Petrillo soaked him $17 for a card in his A.F.L. American Federation of Musicians. Blake, already a member of the A.F.L.'s American Guild of Variety Artists, mainly a vaudeville union, paid to keep Petrillo's musicians from walking out on the show...
Saturday's statement was an amplification of a report issued by the Commission on June 8, "American Education and International Tensions...
...announcing the decision, Dean Griswold commented that "women have made a place for themselves in the law, and many now serve with distinction on the bench and at the bar. Women have come a long way since they were first admitted to the American Bar Association...