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...lucky American workers, and millions of people living on fixed incomes, are finding that, with prices going up, their standard-of-living escalators are going down. And the short-range outlook. Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Ewan Clague glumly predicted last week, is that the index will continue to "creep up like this...
Like Digby-Vane-Trumpington, many writers cannot be kept from rope ladders; they love to swarm up the icy cliffs of fiction, creep up on reality in their rope-soled shoes and knock it out of commission with those knuckle-dusters. In the van of these shock troops is British Novelist Alistair MacLean, who in H.M.S. Ulysses (TIME, Jan. 23, 1956) showed his ability to zero in with a battery of heavy cliches, fieldstrip and assemble a character in the dark, and tell an exciting story. MacLean displays the same talents in his current operation, dealing with the eastern Mediterranean...
...Believers understood this well in the Middle Ages, says Author Sayers. The "childishly literal" conception of Heaven and Hell as places in space and extensions in time began "to creep out of popular mythology into the minds of educated people" after the Reformation and Renaissance. Heaven means meeting the Reality which is God, and for this, human souls need special training to free the will and judgment from error and perversion. If the training is not completed in life, it must be finished after death; "that is why any attempt to hold the spirits 'earthbound'-by 'calling...
...mother and stepfather (Michael Rennie) sympathetically figure that the hostile, resentful girl is merely a little bundle of misery. The boy next door is less sympathetic. "Am I losing my charge," he wonders aloud, after she holds him at arm's length, "to be turned down by a creep?" In the language of her contemporaries, she is a square who wants to fit into a world that is round. In the end, after her mother and the boy next door smooth off some of the rough edges, she does. Betty Lou Keim, as the girl, is too convincing...
...price of money, like most other prices in the high-pressure Canadian economy, continued to creep upward last week. For the sixth time in 15 months, the Bank of Canada raised its rate on loans to chartered banks. The country's basic interest rate was increased from 3¼% to 3½%,* the highest ever charged by the government-owned central bank...