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...popularity increased or decreased as a result of his televised battle with the Army? Last week the Providence Journal-Bulletin reported the results of a poll in which readers were asked to express their feelings about McCarthy before and since the hearings. The paper asked readers to clip a questionnaire, which more than 7,000 (49% men, 51% women) mailed in. Results...
...billion, up about 1.5% from last year's record-breaking levels. Highway construction shot up 25% from a year ago to $250 million in April. Private housing stepped up last year's fast pace in the first four months to better than a million-unit-a-year clip. The trade magazine Engineering News-Record reported that last week was the second highest on record for new housing starts...
...Father) Bemelmans told about his shrewd idea for luring patrons to a bar he has just opened on the He de la Cite. His plot: "It is my intention to plant some homing pigeons at the [square] in front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I''II clip their wings so they can't fly, but will have to walk home. When all the tourists who come to see the cathedral and feed the pigeons start following my birds, the pigeons will lead them straight...
Latin America, currently buying from the U.S. at a $3.1 billion-a-year clip, is paying for its purchases with exemplary promptness. Last week the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported that in March the current draft indebtedness of Latin importers of U.S. goods fell to a nominal $99.9 million. In the seven years that the bank has kept records, that figure was matched only once before: in the Korean war month of September 1950. It was the eleventh successive monthly decline in such commercial arrears, which now amount to about a third of the total outstanding a year...
...took his hand and led him toward the analyst in the vestry room. 'The raccoon,' I continued, 'always washes his food before eating. Why not 'raccoon' your mind?... Since then that young man has risen from envelope-sealer for Eastern Steel to the ownership of one of the largest clip joints in Las Vegas! And why? Because he learned to 'raccoon' his mind...