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Sales competition was bringing down the price of family inboards to meet the outboards. Carlisle tagged its 17-ft. Aqua-Queen cruiser with new compact Fageol VIP 35-h.p. engine at $1,995. Ulrichsen priced its 21-ft. Sea Skiff with twin 60-h.p. Chris Craft engines at $2,895. For do-it-yourselfers, there were kits ranging from an 8-ft. pram at $52 to a 23-ft. cabin cruiser for $879, about half what each would cost assembled...
...first public reckoning of the economic cost of Eden's Suez policy hit Parliament like a splash of cold water, thrown by Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan, whose sober demeanor seemed to say: in aqua frigida veritas. The jeers and roars that had greeted Selwyn Lloyd gave way to somber attentiveness when Macmillan gravely declared: "The customary monthly announcement on the gold and dollar reserves is being issued to the press today ... It shows a fall of $279 million in the reserves...
Esther Williams Aqua Spectacle (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). TV's first water show...
...Silent World (Columbia). With the Aqua-Lung, which he invented in collaboration with an engineer named Emile Gagnan, a 46-year-old captain in the French navy, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, provided the wings on which both Sunday sportsmen and serious scientists have gone soaring with a new freedom into the wild green yonder. In The Silent World, which since its publication in 1953 has sold almost 500,000 copies in the U.S. alone, Cousteau composed a poetic primer of underwater exploration. In this film Cousteau has tried to fill the screen with the same "rapture of the great depths" that...
...Minneapolis' annual "Aquatennial" wound up ten days of parades, stage and water shows (featuring the Aqua Follies, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, a water-ski circus and Rin-Tin-Tin) with Evangelist Billy Graham. In one Sunday-morning session he outpulled them all with an overflow audience of 21,000 and 500 "decisions for Christ." Aquatennial directors, said the show business weekly Variety, will try to bring him back next year. ¶ President Eisenhower signed into law a bill authorizing commercial airlines to grant reduced fares to clergymen on a "space available" basis, i.e., without advance reservations...