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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years old, Price is a tall, friendly man, whose voice still retains the gentle drawl of his native Kentucky. His chief current extracurricular concern is to visit his family on weekends in Scarsdale, New York. He has not been able to move them up here yet, and spends most of his spare time "real estate hunting" in the Boston area...
However, the Commerce Committee bill comes much closer to the administration plan than does a Senate-passed measure calling for a $465 million federal outlay. Eisenhower last year vetoed a bill somewhat like the current Senate version...
...gimmick in the current film is Black Rock itself, a town bearing little resemblance to the standard farmer-cowman battleground. Black Rock is unusually homogeneous, "consumed with apathy," until the appearance of the outsider threatens the power elite and probes the town's collective guilty conscience. The suspension of disbelief called for is somewhat greater than usual, owing to the improbable economic and social set-up of the town, population circa twelve, all of whom sport neuroses of one sort or other. One day's exposure to the hero is all the therapy they need to set them straight, however...
Foreign aid, contrary to current American policy, is not a series of emergency measures that can be halted tomorrow or the day after, should the Russians discontinue their "economic warfare," but is a systematic response to a deficiency in the world's economy. Senator Kennedy, in his plea for a "revitalized" Development Loan Fund administered by the State Department with enough capital for long-term operation, although a constructive suggestion, does not go far enough...
...news of the current indoor track season has been height rather than speed. At the Inquirer meet in Philadelphia, muscular Don Bragg, 23-year-old Army private, vaulted 15 ft. 9½ in. to break the 16-year-old world indoor record. At the New York Athletic Club meet in Madison Square Garden, Boston University's High Jumper John Thomas, 17, deprived of a world indoor mark when his 7 ft. jump was not measured correctly a fortnight ago, did it all over again to make his mark official...