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Last week, as Colonel Stig Erik Con-stans Wennerstrom, 56, awaited trial as a Soviet spy, it was suddenly clear that his relationships had been most amicable east of the Iron Curtain...
Photo Finish stages a lively dead heat between an old party of 80 and his 60-, 40-, and 20-year-old selves. Author-Director-Star Peter Ustinov has con cocted this stunt play, and with the help of an elegant and able cast, he pulls it off wittily...
...requiring the Agriculture Department to merely present the facts, pro and con. After Freeman recently assured Congress that he had not tried to influence the wheat farmers' votes, Montana's Republican Congressman James F. Battin charged him with duplicity, called for his resignation. Last week the House Republican Conference issued a statement accusing Freeman of "half-truths" and "blackjack tactics." Freeman, the Republicans charged, was trying to turn the referendum into a "pressurendum." Freeman has an unforeseen ally on his side-the dry weather that has afflicted great stretches of the Great Plain this spring. Western Kansas...
...billion for the year. This was a modest forecast; many economists anticipate a G.N.P. of at least $585 billion. At the semiannual meeting of the Council's 100 leading businessmen in Hot Springs, Va., Chief Presidential Economist Walter Heller conceded that the Administration had been too con servative about the year, said that the Government might well "revise upward" its own official prediction of a $578 billion G.N.P. for 1963. His hint: about $583 billion. Color Broadcast. In Detroit, auto producers predicted that car sales this month will crack last October's alltime record...
...Science Committee "had watched the matter with great interest. I am not quite sure," he added, "that the plan for credit sophomore tutorial would works in History and Science as the fields are even further separated than History and Literature, but the committee is giving the idea serious con- sideration...