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...Arab world last week reeled in a delirium of joy. Damascus Radio repeatedly shrieked, "Ahlan Bil Wahda!" (Welcome to union). When Syrian soldiers sent bursts of tracer bullets streaking against the night sky, the radio announcer hastily told his excited listeners that it was not revolution but jubilation. THE DREAM HAS COME TRUE! headlined a Beirut paper. Aleppo nearly exploded: its main streets became a sea of screaming humanity, and cars inched along honking their horns to the rhythm...
Beginning with a congregation of 13, Bil lington now has 17,000 parishioners, presides over Sunday crowds that surpass 10,000 in church and Sunday school, supervises an annual budget of $620,000 drawn from weekly collections that average $10,750, supports the work of 160 missionaries, and draws vast plans for expansion. A new, $500,000 addition will soon be made to the $6,000,000 temple's four red brick buildings...
...Slightly off," said Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges of the first-quarter figures, which show the gross national product bobbing along at $548 billion to $550 bil lion instead of the hoped-for $553 billion...
...Underlying Strength." Anderson pointed out that the adjustment has been largely caused by the drop in buying for inventories; they have skidded from an annual rate of accumulation of 11.4 bil lion in the first quarter to about zero in the third. "This sharp decline in inventory spending is the key fact in our domestic business picture, and accounts for the relative stability of industrial production in 1960, despite a substantial expansion in final demand." Now, said Anderson, with the rate of inventory decline arrested in August, "the inventory adjustment appears to be nearing completion." He also found it "heartening...
...spoof people, Bil has generally used animals: a gossipy hen (Hedda Louella McBrood), a bulldog TV interviewer (Mike Malice), a cow fan dancer (Dorothy LaMoo). He also has a mournful hound-dog named Edward R. Bow-Wow, who delivers historical newscasts over See It Now-Wow. But if TV is willing, Baird proposes something grander: serious news shows using puppets (Khrushchev, Dulles, et al.), with graphic, moving geopolitical maps. "Nothing to it," says Puppeteer Baird. "In this art, the whole world is at your fingertips...