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...York probably has more nightclub activity than any European city, it cannot touch the vulgarity of Hamburg or the competitive, nuder-than-thou spirit of Paris, where G-strings are worn only by fiddles, and one hilariously surrealist female statue-at the Port du Salut-has a heart-shaped chamber carved in her left breast, in which two white mice play...
Bach on the Strad. In Columbus, Ind. (pop. 20,658), Miller is a substitute Sunday school teacher at the 350-member North Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He is also a Rotarian, a faithful worker in the local Chamber of Commerce, a Republican. Before Businessman Miller turned to his family enterprises, he first earned a Phi Beta Kappa key in Greek and Latin at Yale, took his master's at Oxford, served as a lieutenant in the Navy during World War II. He also learned to play the violin, manages fair Bach on his Stradivarius...
...Next Upswing. Outside the hearing room, the testimony was echoed by other economists. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce predicted a "mild" business slump for the first half of 1961 of "only 1% or 2%" in the gross national product. For the long run, the chamber was optimistic. In the face of the slide; said Emerson P. Schmidt, the chamber's chief economist, "the strength and level of the economy are surprising." He believes that the gross national product may climb as high as $520 billion in 1961 (at present: $500 billion) if the slump ends by midyear. Says Schmidt...
Labor's decline began shortly after the 1957 general elections. Campaigning on a platform of reduced taxes and tax rebates, the party slipped back into power with a paper-thin two-vote majority in New Zealand's 80-seat, one-chamber Parliament. But within months Labor Prime Minister Walter Nash, now 78, announced that a balance-of-payments financial crisis had forced his government to renege on its campaign promises. To pay its bills, the government slapped new taxes on beer, tobacco and petrol, which more than canceled the tax rebates. Above all, New Zealand's voters...
...headlined the Washington Post-and so it was when Dr. Donald Glaser, 34, this year's Nobel laureate in physics, married Ruth Louise ("Bonnie") Thompson, 23, a University of California math major. First thrown together in a U.C. radiation lab, where he was testing his liquid hydrogen bubble chamber and she was a part-time programmer for a computer, the Glasers winged off last week toward Stockholm and a honeymoon helped along with $43,627 in Nobel money...