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This three-hour book was quarried by Peter Stone from a play by Jean-Paul Sartre, who dug his drama out of Alexandre Dumas père. Long after chronic boredom has set in, Actor Drake is made to muse...
...Charleston, S.C., the News & Courier, a chronic Kennedy critic, politely applauded his scholarly speech at Chapel Hill (TIME, Oct. 20), then yielded to the same anxiety that troubles Erwin Canham: "Mr. Kennedy's trouble lies in translating high-sounding words and resolute statements into the actions of the administration he heads. It is our well-justified fear that the President is lacking in that quality which enables a man to live up to his own words. For all the firmness, the total body of his decisions as President is not such as to inspire national confidence...
...Chronic III. Few economists believe that there is anything chronically wrong with retail sales. Katona says that his latest study finds consumer sentiment finally leaning toward the buy side, especially in autos and appliances, but he does not expect the buying trend to show up noticeably until November and December. Bolstering Katona's optimism were indications from builders of a September pickup in new home sales that will eventually filter down to appliance makers. Another bit of encouragement for the fall retail season: the strike at Ford Motor Co. seemed near an end as the company agreed...
...Church Street Corporation, which took over the management of the 150-car garage last year to prevent it from going out of business, may decide to acquire adjacent land and put up a bigger building. This would undoubtedly help to relieve Cambridge's chronic parking problem...
What does the changing U.S. jobography mean? For one thing, says Wolfbein, "we may see less of the classic pattern of job hunters flooding into the North from the South." For another, the shift shows the momentum of the force that creates chronic-unemployment areas when industry moves out-a problem that no one yet fully understands how to remedy. And it points up the need to explain the story of the new industrial map to the rapidly growing horde of new workers, so that a Southern boy training to be a die cutter will realize that he does...