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Perry Mason (Sat. 7:30 p.m., E.D.T., CBS). Erie Stanley Gardner's famed lawyer-sleuth (Raymond Burr) is constantly embroiled in the best-plotted intricacies of TV's mystery shelf. His worst enemy is no crook but District Attorney Hamilton Berger (William Talman), whose batting average against Mason's brilliant courtroom tactics is .000. His closest pals are a private detective (William Hopper) and an even more private secretary (Barbara Hale), whom Mason keeps late at the office and takes with him on business trips. A true gentleman. Mason has no stomach for rough stuff, but even...
Against superior muscle, that was the best morale could do. In the final competition in Manhattan. Russia's Heavyweight (more than 198½ Ibs.) Alexei Medvedev, his big bay window leaking over his belt, posed pensively before the bar bells as if thought alone could lift them from the floor. Then he stopped thinking, started straining, and hefted a total of 1,080 Ibs. in three heaves, to lead his teammates to one more 4-3 victory. Said the Russians' political chaperon as he accepted congratulations for his boys' clean sweep: "I hope you have...
...Painter Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp saw the results -brightly colored compositions of sheet metal, wire, steel rods and wood, moving by use of motors, pulleys or wind -he dubbed them "mobiles." Sculptor Jean Arp reacted by calling the nonmoving sculptures "stabiles." Thus were created two of the best-known terms of modern sculpture...
...Bellwether Industry?). The number of the jobless collecting benefits dropped 70,900 to 3,194,000, lowest since Feb. 15. Personal income and retail sales are holding up well. The auto industry, black sheep of the economy, is also showing some life; May auto sales started off at the best rate since January, and production last week rose 8,000 to 86,738 units...
...erect further tariff barriers against foreign commodity imports. While the victims of the commodity slide do not blame the U.S. for the falling prices, they do blame it for the quotas and tariffs -and the threat of more -which can only make their plight more painful. The best long-range solution to the economic problems of the world's underdeveloped lands is a free market for trade in which they are able to take full advantage of their abundant materials and low costs, thus earn themselves the money they need to develop and diversify their economies...